Amber Dorsey, M.S.
Amber Dorsey is the Vice President of Development for Dance Toward Health Incorporated. Amber is a health educator who is passionate about encouraging others to lead healthy and physically active lifestyles. She has special interest in maternal, infant, child, and adolescent health. Amber earned a dual B.S. degree in General Science with concentrations in Biology & Chemistry and in Health Education with a concentration in Community & Public Health from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Amber also served as an intern at MTSU's Student Health Services within the Health Promotion Department. She received her Master of Science degree in Health Education from MTSU in August of 2014 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Health and Human Performance also at MTSU. She currently also serves as an adjunct faculty member and graduate teaching assistant within the Health and Human Performance Department at MTSU.
Amber has more than eight years’ worth of dance experience in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, and hip-hop, which began at the age of two. While in college, Amber utilized dance as a means for stress management through her involvement in MTSU's Performing Arts Company.
As an advocate for child and adolescent health, she served as a field administrator/trainer for the 2012 Ghana Global School-Based Student Health Survey (i.e., the international version of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey) conducted by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Amber firmly supports the movement to monitor the youth’s health behaviors, encourage children to make healthier food choices and be more physically active, and end childhood obesity. She believes that exercise in the form of recreational dance can help children establish an enhanced understanding of how exercise can be enjoyable, assist them with stress and weight management, as well as reduce their overall risk of obesity and other related poor health conditions.
Amber can be reached via email at: dancetowardshealth.development@gmail.com
Amber Dorsey is the Vice President of Development for Dance Toward Health Incorporated. Amber is a health educator who is passionate about encouraging others to lead healthy and physically active lifestyles. She has special interest in maternal, infant, child, and adolescent health. Amber earned a dual B.S. degree in General Science with concentrations in Biology & Chemistry and in Health Education with a concentration in Community & Public Health from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Amber also served as an intern at MTSU's Student Health Services within the Health Promotion Department. She received her Master of Science degree in Health Education from MTSU in August of 2014 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Health and Human Performance also at MTSU. She currently also serves as an adjunct faculty member and graduate teaching assistant within the Health and Human Performance Department at MTSU.
Amber has more than eight years’ worth of dance experience in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, and hip-hop, which began at the age of two. While in college, Amber utilized dance as a means for stress management through her involvement in MTSU's Performing Arts Company.
As an advocate for child and adolescent health, she served as a field administrator/trainer for the 2012 Ghana Global School-Based Student Health Survey (i.e., the international version of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey) conducted by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Amber firmly supports the movement to monitor the youth’s health behaviors, encourage children to make healthier food choices and be more physically active, and end childhood obesity. She believes that exercise in the form of recreational dance can help children establish an enhanced understanding of how exercise can be enjoyable, assist them with stress and weight management, as well as reduce their overall risk of obesity and other related poor health conditions.
Amber can be reached via email at: dancetowardshealth.development@gmail.com
