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Amy Redford is an actress, director, and producer. Redford has starred in a number of independent films and is the daughter of screen legend Robert Redford. She recently produced and directed the feature, *The Guitar *starring Saffron Burrows and Isaach De Bankole. Redford was born in 1970. She Attended the University of Colorado and studied theater in San Francisco and London.

Amy has just published *Opting In: Having A Child Without Losing Yourself*. Before that she co-authored (with Jennifer Baumgardner)* Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism* and *Manifesta: Young Women Feminism and the Future*. Over the years she has worked as a consultant to Gloria Steinem, Anna Deavere Smith and the Columbia School of Public Health among other places. She is on the board of advisors to *Ms. Magazine* and the counsel of advocates to Planned Parenthood New York City. Amy is also a board member to The Lower East Side Girls Club, Fair Fund, and the Sadie Nash Leadership Institute. And most of her "training" in being an effective activist came from her involvement with the Third Wave Foundation. Since Third Wave's inception in 1992, she helped it grow from an organization struggling to find a place within the feminist movement to being one of only a few organizations for young feminists.

Amy Robinson Sterling is the Executive Director of EyeWire, a brain-mapping game that began at MIT. EyeWire crowdsources neuroscience, challenging hundreds of thousands of players around the world to solve 3D puzzles which actually map out neurons. Sterling has advised the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the US Senate on crowdsourcing and open innovation. Under her leadership, EyeWire's neuroscience visualizations have appeared at TED and in Times Square in NYC. She helped to create the world's first neuroscience virtual reality experience. Sterling curates the NIH 3D Print Exchange Neuroscience collection, which features several 3D printable neurons discovered by Eyesore gamers. She has written for Vice, the BBC, Nature, and Forbes and writes the Neurotech series for Scientific American in partnership with MIT. Amy Robinson Sterling also founded the TEDx Music Project, a collection of the best live music from TEDx events around the world. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015.

Amy Salt is GBH’s Vice President of Sponsorship, leading the Sponsorship Group for Public Television (SGPTV) and Local Corporate Sponsorship teams. Salt oversees the presentation of unique multi-platform sponsorship opportunities for national productions, and local sponsorship opportunities across all of GBH’s radio, television, and digital platforms, finding innovative new ways to help sponsors connect with PBS and NPR audiences.

Amy Shaw became the President and CEO of the Nine PBS in February 2020 after serving the organization in various leadership roles beginning in 2003. She is the first woman to lead Nine in its 70-year history. She is recognized as a national leader and innovator in community engagement and public media. Shaw leads a talented team in groundbreaking work that leverages engagement, storytelling, and trust for measurable impact around important and complex issues in the St. Louis region.

Amy Smith, who has a master's degree in mechanical engineering and teaches at MIT, isn't interested in building faster computers or bigger jetliners. She's thinking about how to cook dinner in a Haitian slum. Smith and her students have developed a way to turn this plentiful (and otherwise useless) material into clean-burning charcoal by carbonizing it in a covered oil drum. Smith, a practitioner of humanitarian engineering, wants to solve everyday problems for rural families in the developing world: where to find clean water, how to preserve vegetables for market, how to do laundry without electricity or plumbing. Smith's inventions include a hammer mill for grinding grain into floura task African women usually do by hand and a portable kit to test drinking water for contaminating bacteria. Smith, who was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship in 2004, runs MIT's IDEAS Competition, for which teams of student engineers design projects to make life easier in the developing world.

Amy Spitalnick is the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the national convener of Jewish coalitions working across communities to build a just and inclusive American democracy.

Amy Stein (b. 1970) is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection.

Amy Stursberg is the executive director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. Since joining the Foundation, Stursberg has been responsible for the creation of a programmatic plan for the Foundation and the distribution of funds. Prior to joining The Blackstone Foundation in 2008, she served on the Spitzer administration transition team. She had been a consultant to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation managing the award of $35 million in cultural enhancement grants and $30 million in community grants in Lower Manhattan. Prior to that Stursberg worked at the September 11th Fund serving as a consultant to the Chair of the Board, Program Director for Economic Development and Revitalization, and then as the last Director of the Fund, overseeing its final distribution of funds. Stursberg has also held positions in the Office of Management and Budget for the NYC Mayors Office and at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington DC. She has also worked as a university administrator and foundation officer. Stursberg currently serves on the boards of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Tectonic Theater Project, Children for Children and serves on the Divisional Board for Trauma and Domestic Violence for the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services. Stursberg received her BA from the University of Michigan with Honors and holds a Masters in Public Policy from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Amy Traverso is the senior food editor for Yankee magazine and its new travel and lifestyle series, Weekends With Yankee, produced in partnership with WGBH. Previously, she served as food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. She is the author of The “Apple Lover's Cookbook”, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the "American" category.

Dr. Wagers is a Principal Investigator in the Section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology as well as an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She received her doctoral degree in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Northwestern University, and completed postdoctoral fellowship training in the laboratory of Irving Weissman, M.D., at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences and Smith Family New Investigator Award.

Over the past 14 years, Amy Walter has built a reputation as an accurate, objective, and insightful political analyst with unparalleled access to campaign insiders and decision-makers. Known as one of the best political journalists covering Washington, she is the former political director of ABC News. Today, she provides political analysis every Monday evening on the PBS NewsHour. She is also a regular Sunday panelist on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face The Nation, and FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. She also appears on Washington Week with Gwen Ifill (PBS), the Friday Round Up on The Diane Rehm Show (WAMU), and Special Report (FOX). This is Amy’s second tour of duty with The Cook Political Report. From 1997 to 2007, she served as Senior Editor where she covered the U.S. House of Representatives. Walter was named one of DC’s “50 Top Journalists” by Washingtonian Magazine in 2009 and honored with the Washington Post‘s Crystal Ball award for her spot-on election predictions in 2000. She is a member of the Board of Trustees at Colby College where she graduated summa cum laude.

Amy Whorf McGuiggan is a freelance writer and the author of *My Provincetown* and *Christmas in New England*. She lives in Hingham, MA. She is also author of *Take Me Out to the Ball Game*.