AMP Treasurer and Board of Trustees
Adam Nester works as Advocate for Mental Health Systems and Policy at Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and is a second-year student at Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law.
As Advocate at Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, he implements state-level and national legislative outreach to the United States Congress and Pennsylvania State Legislature, routinely meeting with key policy-makers and working with other members of the MHASP Advocacy Division to establish organizational legislative advocacy priorities.
He is responsible for conducting in-depth healthcare and social policy analysis, with an emphasis on mental health and substance use issues, as it relates to various populations in Pennsylvania (elder care, youth, persons with mental health issues, persons experiencing homelessness, persons with physical and intellectual disabilities).
Finding ways to work together across disciplines has been the foundation of the last decade of Adam Nester’s professional career having worked in emergency rooms and the halls of the United Nations, in a variety of disciplines as diverse as international affairs, humanitarian law, conflict resolution and mental health. He consistently applies his expertise in conflict analysis and resolution, psychology, and business to analyze national and global trends at both domestic nonprofits and internationally-recognized organizations.
Adam has worked as Program Officer of the Global Security Institute, as a Program Officer for the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy and as a researcher for the 2006 George Mason University Stakeholder Survey of the International Criminal Court. .
Adam holds an M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a B.S. in Psychology from Saint Joseph’s University. He has given presentations at American University and George Mason University on international justice mechanisms, victims, reconciliation and trauma healing issues in connection with his prior work.