Amber Woodward, MBA, NRP, is the Assistant Director of Aiken County Emergency Services in Aiken, South Carolina. She is a speaker and educator specializing in autism training for all emergency services personnel. Amber has 10 years of autism advocacy experience as a parent of an autistic child and serves on the South Carolina Advisory Council for Educating Students with Disabilities. She is the recipient of the Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH Award for winning the 2025 Stand and Deliver competition at EMS World Expo. Amber holds a Bachelor of Arts in Disaster and Emergency Management and a Master of Business Administration. She also launched the Aiken County Emergency Services Sensory Sensitive and Special Needs Touch-A-Truck in 2018 which continues to provide positive interactions between emergency services personnel and special needs individuals.