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David Ambroz

Biography

David Ambroz

David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate. He was recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. He currently serves as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon. Previously he led Corporate Social Responsibility for Walt Disney Television, and served as the President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and as a California Child Welfare Councilmember. After growing up homeless and then in foster care, he graduated from Vassar and later from UCLA School of Law (J.D.). He is a foster dad and lives in Los Angeles, CA.

David Ambroz

Books by David Ambroz

A Place Called Home: A Memoir
by David Ambroz - Memoir, Nonfiction

There are millions of homeless children in America today. In A PLACE CALLED HOME, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for 11 years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty experience every day. David and his siblings should be in elementary school, but instead they are walking the streets seeking shelter while their mother is battling mental illness. When David is placed in foster care, at first it feels like salvation but soon proves to be just as unsafe. He finds hope and opportunities in libraries, schools and the occasional kind-hearted adult; he harnesses an inner grit to escape the all-too-familiar outcome for a kid like him.