Amy Acton, the Executive Director of the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors is a burn survivor who has 13 years experience as a burn nurse and manager. She has dedicated her career to working with burn survivors because of her own personal experience as a survivor of an electrical burn injury in 1981.

Acton is a member of the NFPA and the American Burn Association. She is past Chair of the Burn Survivors Support SIG. She has also served on the ABA Ethics and Rehabilitation committees and currently serves on the ABA Prevention Committee. In 2002, she was awarded the ABA Burn Prevention Award. She is co-chair of the new joint committee of the Phoenix Society and American Burn Association focusing on Aftercare and Reintegration.

Amy remains extremely involved in the expansion of burn recovery services for those injured locally, regionally and nationally along with the dedicated Phoenix Society staff and volunteers.