Valor Collegiate Academies
Amber Conway, Ed.D, currently serves as the Manager of Inspired, Purposeful Lives and Postsecondary Success Counselor at Valor Collegiate Academies, a position held since July 2022. Prior experience includes a six-year tenure at Belmont University, where responsibilities encompassed administering institutional loans and state scholarship programs, managing disbursement of lottery scholarship funds, and providing counseling to students and families regarding financial aid. Amber's career also includes roles at the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation, where contributions involved assistance with scholarship applications and the management of Tennessee Hope Scholarship inquiries. Amber Conway holds a Doctorate in Education with a focus on Leadership and Professional Practice, a Master's degree in Counseling, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology.
Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor Collegiate Academies is the first diverse-by-design, public college preparatory charter school in Nashville, TN to serve a holistically diverse background of students. Founded with the mission to empower our diverse community to live inspired, purposeful lives, Valor currently serves 1,900 students across three schools in grades 5-12. At the core of our model is Compass, a nationally-recognized model for comprehensive human development and social-emotional learning. Ranked in the top 5% of Tennessee schools for growth and achievement since opening in 2014, we are proving that schools don’t have to compromise academic results for comprehensive human development.