AMY RICHARDS

Author, producer and organizer Amy Richards was born on February 9, 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia and grew up in Pennsylvania. She was an NCAA Division I soccer player at Barnard College and graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Art History in 1992. Richards authored We Are MAKERS, a book based on the PBS documentary series MAKERS. She produced the Emmy nominated series WOMAN for VICELAND and executive produced The Glorias, among other stage and video projects. Amy is the president of Soapbox, Inc., the foremost feminist lecture agency, and the affiliated Soapbox Foundation, creators of Feminist Camp. Her first book Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism & the Future issued a 20th anniversary edition in 2020. Amy lectures at dozens of venues each year and contributes, through her writings and media appearances, to the current public conversations on feminism.

"Feminism to me is about acknowledging our differences and those differences being a strength."