Salvatore (Sal) Amenta is active in the Community Living movement at the local, provincial and national levels, and a founding member of a local family support group. 

Before retiring from teaching in 2001, he was dean and acting president of Prime Tech Institute, which followed 20 years of teaching for the Toronto Catholic District School Board.  In that period, Sal was president and past president of the Toronto secondary teachers, professor at the University of Toronto’s (UT) Faculty of Education, and co-ordinator of Liberal Studies at UT School of Continuing Studies. 

Prior to that, he lectured at Scarborough College while earning his PhD in Educational Theory (1980).  He was also a founding director for the Columbus Centre, and Scarborough Arts Council.  Before teaching art at UT, he graduated from the Ontario College of Art (1969), as well as the universities of Guelph (BA, ‘70) and Sir George Williams (MA, ‘70).