Amy Berk is an artist and art educator who directs City Studio, offering underserved youth high-quality arts education in their own neighborhoods. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 2006, serving as Chair for the Contemporary Practice program from 2011 to 2013, and has taught “City as Studio Practicum,” offering practical teaching experience to the SFAI student body since 2010. In 1996, she co-founded the innovative Meridian Interns Program serving inner-city teens and has taught in the Post-Baccalaureate program at UCBX since 2004. Since 2019 she and Chris Treggiari have collaborated on ARTIVATE, which creates opportunities for youth to explore artmaking and citizenship in the public sphere.  She has recently taken on a Program Director role at Industrial Design Outreach and is running a mentor-driven project creating light sculptures at Academy High. She remains committed to giving teens (and adults) a much-needed voice, a safe place in which to speak, and helping them find the proper tools to do so.