Amber Moodie-Dyer
Bio: Amber Moodie-Dyer is a social worker, teacher, writer, artist and activist. She received her BS in Psychology from Missouri State University in 2001, Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003, and PhD in Social Work from the University of Missouri in 2011. Amber also is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Expressive Arts Therapist. She has worked in several nonprofit settings in the fields of community outreach, policy and advocacy, and direct practice in four different states over the course of 20 years on issues ranging from education and afterschool programming, neighborhood vitality, substance abuse prevention, community development, affordable housing, child care, environmental justice, social and economic policy, and health care. Amber currently lives in Vilas, North Carolina and works as a hospice Social Worker. Amber co-founded the High Country Death Café in Boone, NC to provide a forum for people to talk honestly and openly about death.