Photographer: Ralph Granich
Looking for Phateama? She is either shooting hoops on the basketball court, studying for her next exam, or is hanging out with her friends. After she graduates from high school she hopes to go to college to be a psychologist and be a runway model. She has an older brother who recently emancipated and has his own place. Phateama is very close with him and looks up to him immensely. She is an energetic, driven, polite and sociable teenager who wants to be adopted by a family who will be there to support and love her through adulthood.