MARY LISA PISECZNY is a wife of 23 years to Scott and a mother to three children, Dylan, Connor, and Megan, all whom were adopted at birth.  Mary Lisa and her husband struggled through infertility in the early years of their marriage, and embraced adoption as a means to build their family.  The adoptions of their two sons were completed through a New York adoption agency in 1992 and 1995.  After moving to Pennsylvania, Mary Lisa was frustrated with the lack of adoption services in the Northeast Pennsylvania area and pursued an independent adoption for their daughter who was born in 2002.  They share and nurture full open adoptions with Dylan’s and Megan’s birth families, which include visits as well as letters and photos (not just with birthparents and their children, but grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins too!), and are faced with the challenges of having a closed adoption with Connor’s birth family (his birthmother’s choice). 

During the last 20 years, Mary Lisa has been active in her desires of helping birth families and adopting families connect and of educating her community on positive adoption awareness and the benefits of open adoption.   A Precious Gift ARC was born out of Mary Lisa’s devotion to the adoption community and the need for an open adoption agency and affordable adoption services in the Northeast Pennsylvania area.