Evita Nancy Torre, Esq. is an award-winning journalist and adoption attorney of counsel with Greenberg & Greenberg. For eight years, first as a reporter at New York University's Washington Square News and later as an editor for Ladies' Home Journal and Seventeen, Evita focused on the American family--with topics ranging from adoption and infertility to parenting and same-sex couples. She has written and reported for the New York Law Journal, ABC's The View, Crain's New York Business, City Guide New York, child, Jane, and Chief Executive. She was honored with the MADD Media Award for her 2006 investigative feature, "When Drinking Kills."

In 2007, Evita began to advocate for the families she had spent nearly a decade writing about. She was awarded a New York Law School Dean's Scholarship, and focused her legal education on adoption and child welfare. Evita founded a new academic center, the Diane Abbey Law Center for Children and Families, and was a family law affiliate of the Justice Action Center for Public Interest Law. For her Colloquium, she co-authored a study on adoption and foster care in New York City. As part of her graduation Capstone, she authored a paper on New International Adoption Laws.

Most recently, Evita served as special legal counsel for Spence-Chapin Services for Children and Families. During law school, she worked with Rumbold and Seidelman, Spence-Chapin, Lawyers for Children, and Kings County Family Court Judge Daniel Turbow.

Evita received her Juris Doctor in 2010, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from NYU in 2003. She is committed to creating communities through adoption and finding families for children.