Colleen Creighton

Executive Director

ccreighton@suicidology.org

 

Colleen Creighton joined the American Association of Suicidology in June 2017.

 

Previously, she served as Executive Director of the Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE), a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the safe and responsible use of consumer household products. She also served as Director of CHPA Educational Foundation where she was responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association’s educational foundation.

Prior to her work in the nonprofit foundation arena, Ms. Creighton worked in the educational field, having taught civics education at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels. Additionally, she spent three years in Lancut, Poland working for the International World Teach program, an organization based out of the Harvard University Center for International Development. Before that, she studied NATO and the European Union at the Irish Institute for European Affairs in Leuven, Belgium.

 

Colleen holds a B.A. in Political Science from the Catholic University of America and a M.A. in East European Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.

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Amy J. Kulp, MS
Deputy Director
ajkulp@suicidology.org

Amy has been with AAS since 1995, when she was hired as the Administrative Assistant, and has been the Deputy Director since 2000.  Amy also serves as the Director of the National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide, a program of AAS.  Prior to coming to AAS, Amy was a certified crisis counselor at Grassroots Crisis Intervention in Columbia, MD.  She was the recipient of the 2000 AAS Roger J. Tierney Award for Service.  She holds a BSW in Social Work, and an MS in Applied Behavioral Sciences from Johns Hopkins University.