Amy Walton

Amy Walton

Bio:

Amy Walton is a nonprofit development consultant, author, certified coach, and yogini who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 

A  magna cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Amy has enjoyed careers as an elementary school and junior college teacher, a Newspaper in Education Consultant, and a nonprofit director of development. She continues to work as a nonprofit consultant and is president of Holy Grounding, a practice devoted to growing women in their faith and lives. She’s also a certified Holy Yoga instructor, a graduate of Holy Yoga’s Ignite Leadership program, and a member of the Yoga Alliance.

Amy’s community leadership has included roles as president and vice-president of school PTAs, the South Hampton Roads Museums Forum, the Virginia Beach Mayor’s Committee for Persons with Disabilities, and Virginia Beach Toastmasters. She serves on the Communications Council of Women United of the United Way of South Hampton Roads and is a lector and women’s ministry leader at her church. Amy is a graduate of She Speaks and has been a four-time speaker at the Small Museums National Conference.

A regular guest blogger for the Moravian Board of Cooperative Ministries, she has written for Our Bible App, the best-selling “A Cup of Comfort” series of books, and magazines and newspapers. She has been an op-ed columnist and children’s columnist for a major daily newspaper and co-authored a curriculum guide recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Amy published her first book, a Lenten devotional, in 2019.

Widowed for 28 years since her husband’s death at sea, she is the mother of two adult sons, a US Army major and an Apple Genius/ music producer. She’s also the proud Gigi of three granddaughters.