Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA

Community Advisor

Amy K. Liebman (she/her) serves on RESPIRAR's Community Advisory Committee. Her expertise helps guide farmworker health and safety efforts.

Amy has devoted her career to improving the safety and health of disenfranchised populations and is a national leader in addressing worker safety and environmental justice through the community health worker (CHW) model.

She joined the Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) in 1999 and is currently the Chief Program Officer: Workers, Environment, and Climate. At MCN, Amy has established nationally recognized initiatives to improve the health and safety of immigrant workers and their families. She oversees programs ranging from integrating occupational and environmental medicine into primary care to designing worker safety interventions. Amy has also advocated for worker health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading programs to improve access to care and culturally contextual education for migrants and immigrants.

Prior to her current position, Amy directed numerous environmental health and justice projects along the U.S.-Mexico border, including an award-winning, community-based hygiene education program that reached thousands of families living without water and sewerage services. Amy has also spearheaded policy efforts within the American Public Health Association (APHA) to support the protection of agricultural workers and served on the federal advisory committee to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. She is also a past Chair of APHA's Occupational Health and Safety.

Amy has been the principal investigator and project manager of numerous government and privately sponsored projects. Her programs have won several awards, including the 2008 EPA Children's Environmental Health Champion Award and the 2015 National Safety Council Research Collaboration Award. In 2011, Amy received the Lorin Kerr Award, an APHA/Occupational Health and Safety Section honor recognizing public health professionals for their dedication and sustained efforts to improve workers' lives.

She has authored articles, bilingual training manuals, and other educational materials on environmental and occupational health and migrants.

Amy earned two master's degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, including a master's degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) School of Public Affairs and a master's of arts from the Institute of Latin American Studies.

Amy has traveled throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, and Europe. She is an avid soccer fan and loves spending time outdoors with her husband and two sons.