Lou Alpert

Lou Alpert is a native Texan and mother of eight children. Over the last forty-five years she has worked with a co-operative women's art gallery, owned a children’s book publishing house, founded The Lakewood Service League and worked as a residential realtor. But first and foremost, she is a mom and advocate of children.

Over the last five years, Lou has walked the path of so many other parents as her daughter, Crystal, succumbed to heroin, homelessness and the of myriad of complications that go along with addiction.