Amber Wool, LSW

Improving Postsecondary Outcomes for Opportunity Youth

Amber Wool currently serves as a Data Reporting Specialist at Episcopal Community Services.

Previously, Amber served as a Project Coordinator in the Policy and Analytics Center of the Autism Institute at Drexel University, and as the Summer Career Exposure Program Coordinator at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. She was also a Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow at Philadelphia Youth Network, where she advanced policy and practice reforms designed to increase postsecondary access for Philadelphia’s opportunity youth.

While earning her master’s degree, Amber interned with the Youth and Workforce Development Department at Episcopal Community Services of Philadelphia, where she focused on program design and delivery and an evaluation of a pilot youth mentoring program. She also worked closely with the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project as a Research Fellow on a collaborative project between the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and Penn Law School. Between her undergraduate and graduate years, Amber worked with a university faith-based nonprofit developing a cultural competence curriculum and mentoring college students.

Amber holds a BSW from the University of Georgia and an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her LSW from the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.

Emerging Leader Fellow

2017 - 2019

Philadelphia Youth Network

Current Position

Data Reporting Specialist
Episcopal Community Services

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