About
Amber DiPietra is a peer counselor, creative writing teacher, intimacy coach, alternative healer, and poet.
For over 20 years, she has worked as a teaching artist for marginalized communities and people struggling with embodiment around health, pain, and loss. She has also been an organizer in disability justice communities in both the Tampa Bay Area and the San Francisco Bay Area through nonprofits, governmental agencies, and grassroots organizations. Some of these include the San Francisco Mayor‘s Council on Disability and the Lighthouse for the Blind San Francisco.
In 2014, Amber became certified to work with other adults with disabilities around sexuality and barriers to accessing intimacy.
She has given talks and performed her work at sites like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tampa History Museum, the Tampa International Fringe Festival, and multiple universities like the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in collaboration with. The Riverside Arts Center.
Substack, coming soon!
Read some of her work at Waveform, Beauty Is a Verb: the New Poetry of Disability, and Tarpaulin Sky.