Tommy Amal serves CYEP as a career coach and Director of Development and Corporate Relations. Before coming to CYEP he was the Assistant Director of Development for Leadership Gifts at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business. He has previously served Virginia Tech in roles in the Dean of Students office, The Student Success Center and as a Central Leadership Gift Officer.

Service is important to Amal, as a member of Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Society, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Board, trustee of the ACPA Foundation Board and member of the Christiansburg-Blacksburg Rotary Club.

An entrepreneur, Amal is CEO and Co- Founder of Mikal- Hamlett; a diversity and inclusion consulting practice and a member of the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

Amal received his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his master’s degree in Agriculture, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech. Go HOKIES!