North Campus Appoints New Director Of ACCESS Disability Services

Audrey Amadeo has been appointed as director of ACCESS disability services at North Campus. 

Amadeo started her tenure on Oct. 7. She will oversee a team of 15 people, providing services such as interpreting, tutoring, note-taking and adaptive technology to students with disabilities. 

Her primary goal is to launch an educational program for adults on the autism spectrum. 

“I’ve always had that passion for helping people,”Amadeo said.

The 35-year-old has served as an adjunct professor of social science at Hialeah Campus since 2022. Most recently, she served as a student success advisor from 2023-24 at North and Hialeah Campuses’. 

Before MDC, she worked as a behavior analyst for 13 years and founded the non-profit Arts for Autism in 2013.

Amadeo has an associate’s degree in education from The Honors College at Miami Dade College, a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Florida Atlantic University and a master’s degree in developmental disabilities from Nova Southern University.