Reverend Amy knew since she was a child in Oklahoma that she wanted to preach and sing when she grew up.  After graduating from Oklahoma Christian University with a BSE in Performing Arts, followed by careers in marketing, music education, music performance and production, including 14 independent albums -- Amy’s long and winding spiritual road led her to Unitarian Universalist ministry.  Here she found her full voice and finally answered her young heart’s wish, headed for seminary at Boston’s Andover Newton Theological School, became a Hospice Chaplain, was ordained in 2011, and began serving Davie’s River of Grass Unitarian Universalist congregation in 2012, where her award-winning sermons where the power of the spoken word often weaves through music.

“Every inspiration asks, ‘does this want to sing or preach, or both!’,” she says as she continues to to fire up the humanity in divinity and the divinity in humanity with emphasis on developing new Unitarian Universalist music. 

As an educator, Reverend Amy has taught music, creative writing, songwriting and life-skills development from the halls of the University of Miami and Dartmouth to the cells of maximum security women’s prisons in Broward and Homestead. As a performer she’s played from the Kennedy Center to some of the most hallowed festival stages. She is a Charter Fellow of Noel Paul Stookey’s “Music2Life Foundation,” working for justice through music by nurturing the next generation of music activists. 

“Ministry and music” Amy says, “are essentially a continuing conversation among our authentic, imperfect selves that we may answer the yearning to be transformed and transform our world.”