Amy Malick

Communication Director

Amy Malick is communication director of Everyday Democracy. Amy has more than 25 years of experience helping people connect, talk and listen to each other to understand and work through complex public problems. She has a particular passion for giving voice to people whose opinions are often overlooked in public work.

Malick has led communications for Everyday Democracy since 1999. She developed the communication strategy that helped take the organization through its transition from a small organization to its current size of 13 full-time staff members, associates across the country, and a network of hundreds of communities. Under Malick’s leadership, communication has helped position Everyday Democracy as a respected national organization that excels in helping local communities build their own capacity to organize large-scale, diverse dialogue for problem solving. Malick pays particular attention to delivering messages and stories that convey realistic and powerful connections between public dialogue and social change.

She relocated to Connecticut from Durango, Colo., where her professional life combined experience managing communication strategies and community relations with writing, reporting and publishing, strategic analysis, public speaking and training. She operated her own communication consulting firm with a focus on training non-profit and school boards of directors. Previously, she was communication director for the Durango public schools and city editor and reporter for the Durango Herald newspaper, where she wrote extensively on environmental and land-use issues. In her work with public and nonprofit organizations and boards of directors, she developed a love for bringing people together in dialogue about what they want their communities to be, and helping them align that vision with strategy. Malick taught English at the middle school, high school and college levels.

She has a master's degree in communication management from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s in English from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. Amy enjoys reading, running, cross-country skiing, biking, swimming, cooking, community gardening, and spiritual development. She volunteers with various initiatives that work to improve the lives of poor, homeless and disenfranchised people in her community of Hartford, Conn. She and her husband, Larry, have three grown children and a grandson.