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Amy Hunter has more than 20 years of experience in human resources, organizational development, project management and leadership within the corporate and nonprofit arenas. She owns and operates her own diversity and inclusion company Lotus Roots Consulting, a diversity and inclusion training and organizational development company. She is employed as Global Diversity and Inclusion Leader at Caleres (formerly Brown Shoe). She formerly served in a similar position at Boeing for St. Louis, Oklahoma, Houston and Florida. Prior to Boeing she was the Manager of Diversity and Inclusion for St. Louis Children’s Hospital. In this role, she led the diversity and inclusion strategies, implementation and measurement for the hospital. She developed education and training that impacted retention as well as equitable patient care. Prior to joining the hospital, Amy was chief diversity officer for YWCA Metro St. Louis; a division analyst, and later a recruitment/retention and inclusion leader for Edward Jones; university relations manager for the Monsanto Company and was Vice President of diversity for Bank of America. Her community engagements have included board leadership roles and advisory board memberships for numerous entities such as, Cultural Leadership, We Stories, United Way, Planned Parenthood, Missouri Business Leaders Network, Governor’s Council on Disability, the St. Louis African-American Arts Council, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Corporate Advisory, the University City Children’s Center, and Southside Day Nursery. Her popular speech “The Talk” was incorporated into a TEDx presentation called “Lucky Zip Codes.” She is a published writer whose works can be found in journals, a book, Huffington Post and Essence Magazine, to name a few, and she has been a sought-after commentator for ABC, CNN, NBC, NPR and other media outlets. Hunter has an earned undergraduate degree and is pursuing a doctorate in critical race theory from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.