Amy Verlanic

Amy L. Verlanic is the sole proprietor of ALV Consulting, which offers project management, strategic planning, and grant writing services to nonprofit associations and educational institutions. Ms. Verlanic's educational grant-writing skills have garnered over $1 billion in public and private funding.

Amy recently retired from a full-time career as the Executive Director of the Institute for Educational Opportunities at Montana Tech, where she worked for 30 years to provide teachers and students with college-based programs that enrich statewide science, engineering, and technology education.

Ms. Verlanic has held elected office at the local, state, regional, and national levels. In 2013, she was the Board Chair for the Council for Opportunity in Education, where she was charged with representing the needs of 2,900 federally funded TRIO programs serving 840,000 Americans.

She is most proud of her family, which includes two beautiful granddaughters, four daughters, and a spoiled golden retriever; being acknowledged by both ASPIRE as the Art Quinn Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and COE as the Walter O Mason Lifetime Achievement Awardee; and most recently, being entrusted as the Sonoma State University TRIO Training Director.