Amney Castaneda

Amney Castaneda, Ph.D., N.C.C. is a Full Professor, Associate School Director, Graduate Program Coordinator, and Clinical Mental Health Program Coordinator in Counseling and Human Services at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Amney is also co-owner of Somewhere Over the Moon Trainings, a company that provides LGBTQ+| and DEIJ trainings to the community. She also has taught the Trans and Nonbinary Lives Course as well as the Bi/pan/poly Lives course for many years for the LGBTQ Certificate in the Women and Gender Studies Department. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Counselor Education from Auburn University in May of 2008. Amney engages in a variety of service and scholarly work related to Social Justice and Multicultural Considerations. She is a Past President of SAIGE, the LGBTQ+ Division of the American Counseling Association and was a co-author of both sets of competencies for working with the LGBTQ+ clients. She also served as a SAFE trainer and a Trans Safe Trainer on campus and in the community for many years and is active and involved in a variety of other LGBTQ+ committees and advocacy work. Amney has presented and published widely on LGBTQ+, Multicultural, and Social Justice topics, including LGBTQ+ populations in corrections.