Amy Strecker serves as Director of Foundation Strategy at Duke Energy and Vice President of the Duke Energy Foundation. In these roles she leads the company’s philanthropic strategy and employee engagement programs. Previously, she worked on the company’s Corporate Communications and Local Government and Community Relations teams.

Amy joined the UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School in 2013 as an adjunct instructor and course coordinator with the Master of Public Administration program. She teaches communications for the Master of Public Administration and Master of Business Administration programs..

She has also worked in the public policy arena, focusing on affordable higher education. Amy started her career with Teach for America as an English teacher in Warren County, North Carolina. Strecker earned a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Public Administration from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Amy serve as immediate past chair the United Way of the Greater Triangle’s Board of Directors and chair elect of the Marbles Kids Museum’s Board of Directors. She grew up in Texas, and now lives in Raleigh, NC with her wife, Emmy, and their four-legged child, Millie.