Amber Winick's professional practice centers around design, birth, and the early years.

As a writer, design historian, educator, mentor and group facilitator, Amber works hand-in-hand with parents, young children and designers alike to facilitate ease, confidence and a greater sense of purpose and pleasure.

She co-founder of the Designing Motherhood project, is co-author of Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births, and helped to shape the checklist in the exhibition series.

As an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College, she studied child development and cultural anthropology. At the Bard Graduate Center, she earned a Master’s in design history and material culture.

Amber has also trained in advance dance/movement psychotherapy for children and caregivers with Dr. Suzi Tortora, RIE®, the Anna Freud Center, Sarah Lawrence College’s Early Childhood Center and she has done extensive research into the life and work of Emmi Pikler and Lóczy, all of which inform the way she works. She is currently working toward therapeutic licensure in the state of New York.

She also has three children of her own and is grateful to have a deep and personal connection to her work.