Attorney Amanda Simmons delivered opening remarks at the National Association of Women Judges' 45th Annual Conference, sharing her experience with youth treatment center abuse at the personal invitation of NAWJ President Judge Toni Clarke, and later addressed the organization's Human Trafficking Committee on the risks of residential placement.

Amanda Simmons of Ambika Law joined attorney Dawn Post and investigative reporter Chelsea Maldonado at NACC's 46th National Child Welfare Law Conference, presenting "Remembering Cornelius Frederick: Addressing Big Residential's Failures" — an in-depth look at the risks foster youth face in residential placements, paired with practical tools for child welfare professionals.

Ambika Law founder Amanda Simmons joined juvenile justice experts at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice's 2022 R/ED Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, for a panel on congregate care and institutional child abuse. Drawing on her own lived experience, the children's rights attorney spoke on the harms of youth residential programs and the push for reform through the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act.