Tanya Torres Trice has spent nearly the last 17 years working for the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency.

The licensed social worker, who is currently the CSFA’s acting director, started her career on the front line as a case carrying supervisor.

Trice told WTOP that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s goal is keep families together, which is an objective that is near and dear to her heart.

“My mom was in foster care. She never was adopted,” said Trice. “A special social worker kept my mom and her family together.”

Those three sentences would not only create Trice’s career path, which included getting her master’s degree in social work from Western Michigan University, but it would cause her to look at foster kids in a special way.

“In their faces I see my mom,” said Trice. “I see in them a chan

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