Nidhi Desai of Desai & Miller focused her practice on advocating for, and working with, families navigating adoption, gamete donation, embryo donation and surrogacy law since 1998. Nidhi worked closely with the Illinois legislature to help draft and pass first of its kind legislation in 2005 protecting all families created through gestational surrogacy, and legislation to protect children born of gamete donation in 2017. Nidhi serves as Deputy Director of Assisted Reproductive Technology for the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys and serves on several boards including the legal professional group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Nidhi authored the chapter on surrogacy for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Practice Handbook on Illinois Adoption Law and has been appointed to committees to provide education and recommendations regarding federal embryo donation policy. She is a frequent speaker on infertility legal issues, locally, nationally and internationally. She remains passionate and committed to helping clients navigate their journey to parenthood and ensuring the process is as safe and legally secure as possible.