Amy proudly serves as the school and community advocacy director for California and Hawai’i at the Cook Center for Human Connection to lead and foster the foundation’s mission to eradicate suicide by serving and assisting with mental health professional learnings and coaching support for parents, caregivers, healers, helpers and their staff. https://parentguidance.org/school-coaching/

Additional background information about Amy:
Mother. Wife. Education consultant. Equity advocate. Former teacher and administrator. First Asian American Board Trustee for Ventura USD. Dr. Amy Cranston’s SEL4CA Steering Committee Leader. Inaugural Renaissance DEI Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Group Leader. Inaugural McKinsey Asian Executive Leader Member. Dr. Ken Magdaleno’s CLEAR Advisory Board Member. 2023 American Heart Association Leaders of Impact and Women of Impact Awardee for “Rallying for Awareness.” Experience as a high-performing Business Executive and Leader with a private-equity-held (Blackstone/Francisco Partners) global educational technology company.

Working at the intersection of family, education and community, Amy excels at high-level business development and strategic decision making. She is recognized for her advocacy and outreach in the areas of early childhood/school readiness, leveling the literacy playing field, suicide eradication and mental health, social emotional learning and the whole child, DEI, parent engagement, and community partnerships in education. With more than 27 years of experience, she understands the needs of educators, parents and children alike having produced high-quality programming for Pre-K through the university level.

Amy was a classroom teacher in California, Texas and Hawaii. Today, she is the mother of two daughters, serves as a volunteer for two education-and-equity based nonprofit organizations, and is a frequent presenter at regional and national education conferences.