Deputy DirectorAmy Berman
Amy Berman is the Deputy Director of the National Academy of Education (NAEd), an interdisciplinary membership organization of the nation’s leading education researchers. At the NAEd, Amy works to advance the strategic and research initiatives of the organization. Prior to that she was an education civil rights lawyer as an Enforcement Director at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and Acting Section Chief and Principal Deputy at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section. In those positions, she worked to ensure equal access to education through the vigorous enforcement, and policy guidance, of civil rights laws, including in the areas of race, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and language. Previously, she has served as an adjunct professor of School and the Law at The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, as well as an adjunct at The George Washington University School of Law and the American University School of Law. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an Ed.S. in Education Policy from The George Washington University, and a B.S. from Cornell University.