Amy Richards | |
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Born | Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. | February 9, 1970
Occupation | Activist, writer, organizer, feminist, art historian |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Books, magazine articles |
Subject | Feminism, parenthood |
Amelia Richards (born February 9, 1970) is an American activist, organizer, writer, television producer, feminist, and art historian, currently residing in New York. [1] She produced the Emmy-nominated series Woman, which airs on Viceland. [2] She is the president of Soapbox, Inc., a feminist lecture agency. [2]
Richards was born on February 9, 1970, in Alexandria, Virginia, to Albert Wentz and Karen Richards. [3] She grew up in Pennsylvania. [3] Her father, Wentz, was not a part of her life. [3] She attended Tabor Academy, a private boarding school in Marion, Massachusetts. [3] After graduating high school from Tabor, she graduated cum laude from Barnard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History in 1992. [3] She was an NCAA Division I soccer player at Barnard. [2] She is also a four-time marathon runner. [2]
Richards became involved in a summer project, Freedom Summer '92, a cross-country voter registration drive. [3] She co-wrote Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future with Jennifer Baumgardner. [2] The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2000 with an anniversary and updated edition published in 2010. [2] She authored Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself, about feminism and motherhood, and is a co-author of Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. [2] She wrote Insight Guides: Shopping in New York City. [2] She also wrote the article "LIVES; When One is Enough", about her experience becoming pregnant with triplets, and deciding to terminate two of them, giving birth to the third. [2] She and Marianne Schnall contributed the piece "Cyberfeminism: Networking the Net" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium , edited by Robin Morgan. [2] Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The LA Times, Bust, Ms., and numerous anthologies, including Listen Up, Body Outlaws and Catching A Wave. [2] She has tackled issues ranging from plastic surgery to abortion politics. [2] She was the interim project director for Twilight: Los Angeles by Anna Deavere Smith. [2] She is also the editor of I Still Believe Anita Hill, a collection of essays featuring Eve Ensler, Catharine MacKinnon, Lynn Nottage and others. [2]
She is the voice to "Ask Amy", an online advice column she has run at feminist.com since 1995. [2] She produced Viceland's Woman, as well as being a consulting producer for Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words for HBO and an advisor on MAKERS: Women Making America, a PBS documentary on the women's movement. [2]
Richards is a co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation, which is now known as the Third Wave Fund, a national organization for young feminist activists between the ages of 15 and 30. [2] The Third Wave Fund co-founded by Richards promotes gender justice, a movement to end patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny.
In July 2002, she co-founded and became president of Soapbox Inc., an organization based on feminism. [1] She served as a cultural attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Russia, consulting on women’s issues. [2] She has been a long-time consultant to Gloria Steinem and Anna Deavere Smith, as well as the Columbia School of Public Health among other places. [1] [4] She serves on the boards and advisory boards of organizations such as Sadie Nash Leadership Project and Chicken & Egg Productions, feminist.com, Ms. Magazine, and Fair Fund. [1] [2] She is an abortion rights activist, having terminated the pregnancy of her twins within a pregnancy where she was expecting triplets. [5]
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