Amy also coordinates Bienvenidos a Delmarva, a project of the Business, Economic and Community Outreach Network at Salisbury University. Bienvenidos provides technical assistance and support to service providers working with immigrants on the Eastern Shore of the Delmarva Peninsula.    Prior to her current position, she was the Director of Outreach and Policy for the Center for Environmental Resource Management in El Paso, Texas, where she directed several programs on both sides of the US-Mexico Border. Her most noted program was Agua Para Beber or Water to Drink, a community-based hygiene education program that reached thousands of families living without water. It was the first program to successfully utilize the promotera de salud model in a community-based environmental health initiative in the United States. It was awarded the 2000 Texas Environmental Excellence Award. 

 Amy has been the principal investigator and project manager of numerous government and privately sponsored projects. She has authored articles, bilingual training manuals and other educational materials dealing with environmental and occupational health and migrants. Amy has a Master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Arts from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  

Amy has traveled throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile and Europe. She loves to spend time with her husband and two children, ages 11 and 8. Together they spend a lot of time outdoors. Amy coordinates a Community Supported Agriculture Program and helps organize a fund for low-income people to access fresh, local produce. She and her family also live in a passive solar house and are passionate about heating/cooling using the sun.