Margaret Schwartz was born and raised in Buffalo , New York . She moved to the Washington , D.C. , area after completing college and has spent the past 25 years building a thriving sales and marketing career.

Today, Margaret is a successful marketing consultant and single mother of two adopted children. Through her book, The Pumpkin Patch: A Single Woman's International Adoption Journey , she talks about how her life was transformed after traveling to Ukraine to adopt two young children. She has enhanced her life through a renewed spiritual faith with the belief that one can accomplish anything in life. She has become an adoption advocate and is working with several charities to improve the well-being of orphaned and abandoned children in Ukraine . Margaret is an exceptional public speaker who regularly addresses groups of all sizes.