Meet Bridgette Banks I AM

Bridgette Banks I AM is a bridge builder who writes stories of faith, identity, healing, and redemption.

Before she became Bridgette Banks I AM, she was Brittan Nicholson—a little girl searching for where she belonged.

Growing up in a foster home without ever being a foster child, she learned responsibility long before she experienced the freedom of childhood. While other children played, she served. She cared for others, carried responsibilities beyond her years, and quietly gave pieces of herself away long before she understood that God was preparing her for something greater.

For years, she identified with Cinderella—not because of the prince or the glass slipper, but because of the servant. She understood what it meant to spend your life pouring into everyone else while quietly wondering if anyone truly saw you.

Years later, Joseph's story became personal. Most people remember Joseph because of the coat. Bridgette remembers him because of the gift. She realized that the greatest battles in life are often connected to the gifts God places within us.

Some families pass down traditions. Others pass down secrets. Bridgette's story taught her that God can redeem both.

That truth became the foundation of her memoir, The Forgotten Daughter: Growing Up in a Foster Home Without Ever Being a Foster Child, where she shares a deeply personal journey through identity, family, faith, and healing.

Bridgette represents the bridge between where she began and where God was leading her.

Banks represents a legacy measured not by what is accumulated, but by the lives transformed, the stories redeemed, and the bridges built.

I AM serves as a daily reminder that her identity is rooted in God—not in rejection, circumstances, or the labels others placed upon her.

Today, Bridgette writes memoir, fiction, Christian nonfiction, dream interpretation, and children's books for readers who have ever questioned where they belong or wondered whether their story still matters.

Her mission is simple:

To build bridges that help others move from surviving to becoming.

Because she believes one truth above all else:

God never wastes a story.