Amy Richards produced the Emmy-nominated series Woman, which airs on Viceland.
20 Facts About Amy Richards
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Amy Richards was born on February 9,1970, in Alexandria, Virginia, to Albert Wentz and Karen Amy Richards.
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Amy Richards attended Tabor Academy, a private boarding school in Marion, Massachusetts.
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Amy Richards was an NCAA Division I soccer player at Barnard.
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Amy Richards became involved in a summer project, Freedom Summer '92, a cross-country voter registration drive.
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Amy Richards co-wrote Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future with Jennifer Baumgardner.
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Amy Richards 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.
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Amy Richards wrote Insight Guides: Shopping in New York City.
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Amy Richards 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.
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Amy Richards's writing has appeared in The Nation, The LA Times, Bust, Ms.
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Amy Richards has tackled issues ranging from plastic surgery to abortion politics.
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Amy Richards was the interim project director for Twilight: Los Angeles by Anna Deavere Smith.
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Amy Richards is the editor of I Still Believe Anita Hill, a collection of essays featuring Eve Ensler, Catharine MacKinnon, Lynn Nottage and others.
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Amy Richards is the voice to "Ask Amy", an online advice column she has run at feminist.
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Amy Richards 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.
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Amy Richards is a co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation, which is known as the Third Wave Fund, a national organization for young feminist activists between the ages of 15 and 30.
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The Third Wave Fund co-founded by Amy Richards promotes gender justice, a movement to end patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny.
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Amy Richards served as a cultural attache to the US Embassy in Russia, consulting on women's issues.
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Amy Richards 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.
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Amy Richards is an abortion rights activist, having terminated the pregnancy of her twins within a pregnancy where she was expecting triplets.