Leadership Team

Amy M. McNamer, Executive Director

Amy M. McNamer is the Executive Director at AISGW. Early in her career, she taught at the Casablanca American School, Morocco, and she has practiced law for twenty years in a variety of contexts in the private and public sectors. Amy worked as an attorney with law firms in San Francisco and Washington before joining the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, where she was a Senior Attorney in the Enforcement Division for over ten years. She has also provided strategic consulting to several area non-profits as a volunteer for Compass Pro Bono, assisting non-profit boards with governance issues and strategic alignment matters. She and her husband, Jim Neill, have three children, all of whom attend or have attended local independent schools. Born and raised in Montana, Amy holds her BA in European History from Harvard and earned her JD at Georgetown.

Lynn Duffy Maloney, Associate Director for Programs and Engagement

Lynn Maloney joined AISGW in January 2015 as the Director of Programs and Member Initiatives. Most recently Lynn served for three years as a board member for the Parents Council of Washington (PCW), where she developed and implemented many of the PCW’s strategic and programming initiatives to support the organization’s mission of connecting parents, students, and administrators in D.C.-area independent schools. Lynn also worked in interim capacities in the admissions office at the Congressional Schools of Virginia and as a freelance writer in the communications office of St. John’s College High School. Prior to her work in independent schools, Lynn practiced law for twelve years at the Washington, D.C. law firm Kelley Drye Collier Shannon (formerly Collier Shannon Scott) with a focus on international trade law.
She received her JD from Fordham University and her BA from Georgetown University, where she remains active in the Alumni Admissions Program and in the stands at Hoya basketball games. Lynn’s husband Chris has been a leader and educator in local independent Catholic schools for almost 20 years, and their three daughters also attend independent schools in the D.C. area.

Allyson del Rosario, Director of Finance

A CPA and CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), Allyson has been working in public and private accounting for thirty years in the DC area. She has a B.S. degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University, and is a member of the Virginia Society of CPAs, the Association of CFEs and the AICPA

Erin C. Summers, Director of Operations

Erin Summers has worked at AISGW since August 2019. She served as the Assistant to Member Services for 4 years before transitioning to the role of Director of Operations in July 2023. Prior to joining AISGW, Erin worked as a French and Spanish teacher at Garrison Forest School and McDonogh School in Owings Mills, MD, and most recently at The Langley School in McLean, VA. She also worked as a higher education officer at Campus France, a service of the Embassy of France in Washington, DC.

A native of Upstate New York, Erin received her BS in Human Development and French Area Studies from Cornell University and her MA in Spanish Language and Culture from Middlebury College. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, practicing her French pastry skills, and finding fun activities to do with her son in the DC area.