Amy Camp

Amy Camp is a trails and tourism consultant, a placemaker, and a certified coach. She founded her consulting practice, Cycle Forward, in 2013 with the plan to help communities better connect to and benefit from their trails. She helped to launch the nationally recognized Trail Town ProgramŽ in 2007 and has since offered her consulting services throughout Appalachia, the Rust Belt, and other locations in the U.S. and Canada.

Amy served on the Board of American Trails from 2012-17, acting as Board Secretary and Chair of the Hulet Hornbeck Emerging Leaders Scholarship Program. She currently serves on the Board of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition. Amy earned her Master of Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. She is also an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation and firmly believes that her coaching certification makes her a better consultant and facilitator. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she first grew to love communities and began her work to help improve them.

Amy can be reached at www.cycleforward.org. Read more about her decision to write about Trail Towns (and preview the first chapter) at www.cycleforward.org/book. You can also connect with Amy at Facebook.com/cycleforwardpgh, Linkedin.com/in/amyrcamp, and Instagram.com/cycle_forward.