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Owner Mary Kate Coleman is a Fulbright scholar, a workshop facilitator for StoryCenter, a PhD candidate, a published writer, a sourdough enthusiast, and a proud mama of two IVF babies.
During 2019, MK lived in Mexico, working as an investigator with the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation. She collaborated one-on-one with deported individuals to create short videos about their immigration experiences. She learned a lot in Tijuana—about life, made family, the immigration system, systemic injustice. But most importantly, she learned about the power of community building through technology and storytelling.
But why Surrogacy?
FOLSKTORY started as a digital storytelling project about parenthood and the fertility journey--a passion project from MK, whose kids were conceived through IVF. But the business took a turn when her sister, after an even longer and harder fertility journey, decided to pursue surrogacy.
Statement of Values
These are distressing and uncertain times,
so let's just be clear:
Folkstory stands with immigrants. Unlike most surrogacy agencies, Folkstory works with DACA recipients and others with legal but non-citizen status.
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Folkstory supports LGTBQIA+ families and individuals.
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Folkstory respects the autonomy of women and their right to make informed, unpressured choices about their bodies and participation in this process.
Folkstory believes in full, clear, informed consent and fair and transparent compensation.
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​Folkstory appreciates the vulnerability inherent in the surrogate's role in this process, as well as the vulnerability of the intended parents' position, including the long and often heartbreaking journey that has preceded the pursuit of surrogacy.
Folkstory sees surrogacy as more than a transaction. We see it as one of the highest forms of community. Our goal is to facilitate partnerships between intended parents and gestational carriers that transcend the legal agreement and become bonds of trust, gratitude, and shared human experience.