Amber McKeen, MSW, MPH

Amber McKeen is a child abuse prevention expert with over 16 years of experience helping youth-serving organizations strengthen safety measures. At Praesidium, she specializes in abuse prevention for K-12 schools, conducting risk assessments, policy analyses, and training sessions.
Before joining Praesidium, as part of the CDC Foundation, Amber led a team of CDC scientists in a large-scale environmental scan of youth-serving organization policies and procedures focused on preventing child sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations.
She previously spent six years at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, training over 35,000 professionals; and developing their webinar education program; co-developing training programs and conducting evaluation research on child exploitation, foster parent training, and first-responder abuse prevention interventions.