--- description: Lachman, who was a domestic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, is the founder and executive director of Foster America. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sherry Lachman ## Sherry Lachman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Lachman, who was a domestic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, is the founder and executive director of Foster America. ## Sherry Lachman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Aug 2, 2018 ### [I Was in Foster Care. Family Separation Isn’t Just a Problem at the Border](https://time.com/5355313/immigration-children-family-separation/) The government is a poor substitute for family [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/sherry-lachman/","name":"Sherry Lachman"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/sherry-lachman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/sherry-lachman/"},"name":"Sherry Lachman","jobTitle":null,"description":"Lachman, who was a domestic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, is the founder and executive director of Foster America.","url":"https://time.com/author/sherry-lachman/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```