The Foster Adopt Minnesota Board of Directors is the governing body of our non-profit organization. Their efforts are a crucial component to the important support that Foster Adopt Minnesota provides to the community.
The below listed individuals graciously volunteer their time and energy to sit on Foster Adopt Minnesota’s Board and are collectively responsible for overseeing our organization’s activities while remaining focused on Foster Adopt Minnesota’s mission, supportive programs and overall goals.

Danielle Theirl
Danielle joined the Foster Adopt Minnesota board in 2022. Danielle has spent her entire career in and supporting human resource teams and leaders. After nearly 15 years as a HR Practitioner, she spent 15 years as a Senior Business Development Director at Salo where she sold and supported her consultants and clients with a wide variety of HR project-based work. Danielle and her husband, Peter, have two children, a biological daughter and a son who they adopted (domestic) from birth. Having grown their family through adoption and being a part of the adoption and foster community has been such a blessing and she looks forward to getting even more directly involved with the incredible mission of FAM.


Eric Becker
Eric joined the Foster Adopt Minnesota board in 2020. He is a financial advisor with Raymond James and takes great pride in helping members of our community craft thoughtful financial strategies that help them achieve the lives they desire. Eric and his wife, Melissa, adopted their amazing daughter as a newborn in 2015, and are immensely thankful for the gift that adoption has provided their entire family. Eric feels strongly that every child should be given the opportunity to find their forever family, and that adoptive and foster families should be given the opportunity to feel the unconditional love from a child.