Executive Director
As CTY’s executive director, Amy Lynne Shelton is dedicated to designing, delivering, and studying innovative educational models and approaches intended to support a diverse community of advanced learners, their families and educators, and other collaborators in the field.
Amy is committed to CTY’s mission to advance the field of gifted education as a center of innovation through research and evidence-informed approaches to identification, education, and support of advanced learners and their families. Before becoming CTY’s executive director, she served as the center’s senior director for research and founded the CTY Baltimore Emerging Scholars Program. Amy previously led CTY in an interim capacity, navigating the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it posed for CTY, its students and their families.