Mitchell R. Amago, MSW is a community leader, advocate, and educator. He is the past President of PFLAG Pittsburgh, a non-profit organization that provides support, education and advocacy to families, friends, allies and members of the LGBTQIA+ community and Proud Haven, an LGBTQIA+ organization that supports those who are experiencing housing instability. He has a master’s in social work from the University of Pittsburgh. He has held trainings, lectures, and speaking engagements on topics that range from working with families with children who identify as LGBTQIA+ to creating safer spaces for the LGBTQIA+ Community from across Pennsylvania to nationwide including at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the Cognitive Behavioral Institute, and has been featured at numerous conferences. He is also the first ever instructor on working with the LGBTQIA+ community for the City of Pittsburgh’s Bureau of Police’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program. In 2010, he co-found the Butler LGBTQ Interfaith Network, an organization that consists of LGBTQ affirming clergy, pastors, and faith leaders that affirm the spirituality of all LGBTQ people, their friends and allies. He is a member at Penbrook United Church of Christ and is seeking ordination in the United Church of Christ in the Harrisburg Association of the Keystone Conference where he is a Member in Discernment. Currently, Mitchell is currently working towards a Master of Divinity through Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC.
