Amy Rooker, MBA '07

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Amy Scott Rooker, MBA ’07, has published a memoir, "My Mother Is a Dragonfly (GFB)," which explores trauma, grief, forgiveness and the unexpected paths that can lead back to wholeness.

After two decades as a corporate attorney and technology executive, Rooker’s life unraveled in ways she did not anticipate. Following the death of her mother, the structures that had once held her steady began to fracture, prompting a reckoning with unresolved childhood trauma and the identity she had built around achievement.

In "My Mother Is a Dragonfly," Rooker examines what happens when the strategies that once ensured survival stop working and something deeper begins to take root. Through grief, spiritual inquiry and psychedelic medicine, she approaches healing not as fixing what is broken, but as remembering what has always been intact.

“For a long time, I thought something was wrong with me because the life I built didn’t feel like it fit,” Rooker says. “What I eventually understood is that the disquiet wasn’t failure — it was information. Healing wasn’t about fixing myself, but about remembering who I was before I learned to disappear.”

Rooker earned her law degree from Vanderbilt University in 2002. She previously practiced corporate law before moving into executive leadership roles in the technology sector. She now lives and writes in Austin, Texas.