Dr. Amy Chapman is the Director for the Collaborative for Spirituality in Education, a center for research and teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, which examines spiritually-supportive schools and the impact of school culture on civic participation. She is also the Director of the Innovating Forward Initiative at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College, which provides seed grants to innovative community or campus-based partnerships to support spirituality for mental health and overall thriving. Amy is also a researcher, using qualitative approaches to understand how people define, develop, and change communities. She also teaches in the Ed.D. program in Leadership and Innovation at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University and maintains a small spiritual direction practice.
A New Jersey native, Amy spent many formative years in Boston. While there, she taught in a small Jesuit middle school and in a large public high school. She also served for fifteen years in parish ministry, ten of which were spent as the Director of Faith Formation at St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Amy has spent considerable time in communities around the world which have deeply influenced her thinking and practice of education, including Dublin, Ireland; Camden, New Jersey; West Kingston, Jamaica; San Salvador, El Salvador; and most especially Tacna, Peru.
Amy has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Education Technology (EPET) from Michigan State University's College of Education. She holds three degrees from Boston College: an A.B. in history and secondary education; an A.M. in Developmental and Educational Psychology; and a C.A.E.S. in Religious Education.
A New Jersey native, Amy spent many formative years in Boston. While there, she taught in a small Jesuit middle school and in a large public high school. She also served for fifteen years in parish ministry, ten of which were spent as the Director of Faith Formation at St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Amy has spent considerable time in communities around the world which have deeply influenced her thinking and practice of education, including Dublin, Ireland; Camden, New Jersey; West Kingston, Jamaica; San Salvador, El Salvador; and most especially Tacna, Peru.
Amy has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Education Technology (EPET) from Michigan State University's College of Education. She holds three degrees from Boston College: an A.B. in history and secondary education; an A.M. in Developmental and Educational Psychology; and a C.A.E.S. in Religious Education.