Amelia Franck Meyer, LISW

Amelia is the Founder and Executive Officer of the national non-profit, Alia. Amelia and Team Alia are UnSysteming the child welfare system and shifting mindsets and practice to keep children safely with, not from, their families. Alia employs a community co-design approach, working alongside parents with lived expertise and innovative systems leaders as partners to co-create new solutions to longstanding problems, while supporting the wellbeing of leaders, teams, and caregivers.

Amelia was named as one of People Magazine’s “25 Women Changing the World,” was selected as an Ashoka Fellow--the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, a Bush Foundation Fellow--inspiring bigger and different thinking, and was named a 50over50 Honoree—SystemReformer in the Disruptor Category by Pollen Midwest. Amelia has a widely viewed TEDx Talk on the Human Need for Belonging, has co-authored a book on trauma-informed parenting, two social return on investment studies, and tools to measure wellbeing, connections, and permanency developed with the University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in child welfare. Amelia has also received many honors and distinctions from her multiple alma maters. Amelia is a sought-after thought leader, author, executive coach, systems reformer, and presenter.