Amy Grace Lam, PhD. (she/they) comes to the role of the Director of Innovation and Collaboration as an innovator, healer, advocate and artist. Amy is a Canadian-born, Chinese American genderqueer person who grew up in NY con un corazón latino. This upbringing gave Amy the lifelong passion to support and work with immigrant and refugee communities for health and wellness.

For over 20 years, Amy has collaborated on efforts to address systemic and institutional barriers as well as facilitate inward psychospiritual practices to promote community mental health. Amy has found that collective reimagining, joy, creation, and witnessing each other is the connective tissue that brings us together for collective healing.

Amy’s writing has been featured in both academic and literary journals. Their performances, installations and music have been presented at museums, galleries, performance venues, public parks and the radio. Amy is advisor for A Place of Her Own, a community-based art organization for women of color and ARTogether, an arts organization offering arts-based programs that support the flourishing of refugees and immigrant communities.

Amy received her MA in Counseling Psychology (UC Santa Barbara), PhD in Cultural/Social Psychology (UC Davis) and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Psychology (UCSF). Amy is also an alumni of American Conservatory Theater’s Summer Educator’s Institute and Summer Training Congress.