Dr. Amber Moodie-Dyer is the Practicum Director in the Department of Social Work at Appalachian State University. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has a graduate certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy. 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 and early education, environmental justice, social and economic policy, and hospice. Amber is originally from Missouri where she obtained her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003, obtained her PhD in Social Work at the University of Missouri in 2011, and worked as a community organizer. She also lived and worked in Minnesota working in the area of child care policy, and in Columbus, Ohio where she taught in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. Prior to her position at Appalachian State University, Amber worked as a Policy Advocate for the North Carolina Justice Center, an Outreach Coordinator with Appalachian Voices, and as a Medical Social Worker in Hospice in Boone, NC. Amber currently lives in Vilas, North Carolina with her husband Joe and dog Huckleberry, and enjoys cooking, hiking, running, fishing, writing and art making of all kinds.