Amy was born and raised right here in District 7, in Fair Oaks and Carmichael.

She attended public schools, grew up on food stamps, Medi-Cal, and subsidized housing, learning early that public systems and education can be the difference between stability and falling through the cracks.

Amy devoted 40 years to California's public schools as a teacher, principal, and superintendent, all while raising her own children, often as her family's primary breadwinner. She has led schools in communities ranging from high-poverty urban districts to small rural counties, always centering the students and families who needed the most support while maintaining a focus on all students.

As superintendent of Amador County Unified School District, before and during the COVID pandemic, Amy led the school community through crises — facing political pressure, personal threats, and hard budget decisions — and always made the calls she believed were right, not the ones that were easy or popular. As deputy superintendent at San Juan Unified School District, she was known as a problem solver, collaborator and leader who was not afraid to make hard decisions to support staff and keep students at the center.

Amy is running for Assembly because the issues she has spent her life working on — education, affordability, healthcare, and the strength of our public institutions — have never been more urgent. She is ready to bring that experience, and that sense of urgency, to Sacramento. 

Amy attended Point Loma College (now Point Loma Nazarene University), earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies and a teaching credential through the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. She went on to earn her Master's of Education degree from Azusa Pacific University and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Administration at Claremont Graduate University. She also completed the California School Boards Association’s (CSBA) Master's in Governance program.

Amy is also a mom, wife, and Mimi to three grand babies. She and her husband Mike have five adult children and live in one of the unincorporated communities of the district.