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Amy HewittInstitute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota
Amy Hewitt, has an extensive background in the disability field and community long term services and supports. She has worked in various positions over the past 40+ years to improve community inclusion and quality of life for children, youth, and adults with disabilities and their families. Her career began as a Direct Support Professional, and she currently employs DSPs to support her brother-in-law, who lives with autism, addiction, and other chronic conditions and receives Home and Community Based Services (HCBS). She is the Executive Director of the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota and conducts research, evaluation, and demonstration projects about community living and the direct support workforce. She is a well-known author of numerous journal articles, curricula, technical reports, and books. Most recently, she co-authored, Direct Support Workforce Solutions: A guidebook for individual and collective action toward workforce stability. Dr. Hewitt is the editor of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, a journal of the AAIDD. She is a Past President of the Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD) and Past President of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). She has a PhD in social work from the University of Minnesota.
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