Amber Winick's professional practice centers around the wellbeing of families.

As a design writer, I am an advocate for child-friendly cities and civic experiences and sometimes work with organizations that want to think inclusively about design, identity and place-making.

I co-founded the Designing Motherhood project and co-authored Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births.

I started my career by working in a child development lab and later earned a Master’s in design history and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center.

I’m deeply interested in mindfulness in caregiving and the relational capacity of our earliest environments. I’ve trained in dance movement psychotherapy with Dr. Suzi Tortora, specializing in the parent-child attachment relationship, as well as through RIE®, Bank Street College, the Anna Freud Center and Sarah Lawrence College’s Early Childhood Center. In 2022, I completed a Fulbright Fellowship centered around the life and work of Dr. Emmi Pikler and Lóczy.

I also have three children and am grateful to have a deep and personal connection to my work.