1. Amy Siskind was born on December 16,1965 and is an American activist and writer.
14 Facts About Amy Siskind
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Amy Siskind earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Cornell University in 1987, and a Master of Business Administration in finance and international business from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1992.
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Amy Siskind worked 20 years on Wall Street before retiring in 2006.
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Amy Siskind was an early supporter of Hillary Clinton during the 2008 United States presidential election cycle, having previously supported Clinton's re-election bid to the United States Senate, and having taken her daughter to meet Clinton at an event in 2006.
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Amy Siskind has drawn criticism from liberals for voting for John McCain over Barack Obama.
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Amy Siskind was reported to be one of the earliest supporters of the Me Too movement, sparked by a tweet from Alyssa Milano on October 15,2017, for which Amy Siskind tweeted her own support within the first hundred minutes.
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In October 2018, in the days following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Amy Siskind posted on Facebook that she was organizing an anti-hate vigil in her Westchester County community.
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In November 2016, Amy Siskind started keeping a weekly list of not-normal events of the Trump administration, and posting the lists on social media.
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Amy Siskind indicated that she did not intend to merely recite normal political disputes, but to catalogue "things that are uncharacteristic of our democracy".
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In June 2018, Amy Siskind started The Weekly List podcast to accompany the lists; writing in Forbes in July 2018, Jo Piazza listed this as one of the "Podcasts Created by Women You Need to Be Listening To Right Now".
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Amy Siskind acknowledged in an interview the following year that a downside of taking such a highly public stance is that "I can tweet things that are inarticulate and be attacked for months and get death threats".
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Amy Siskind's podcast was recognized by Marie Claire in 2019.
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Amy Siskind organized the 2019 We the People March, a national march advertised as an event to remind elected officials that they work for the American people.
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In 2021, Amy Siskind donated The List collection to the Annenberg School library.