Amy Richards

Amy Richards ( born February 9, 1970) is an American journalist, fundraising consultant and women's rights activist. She is an advisory member of the feminist magazine Ms. and founder of the Third Wave Association, a national organization for young feminists in the United States.

Life

Richards ended in 1992, the Barnard College in New York City with a degree in art history. In the summer of the year they organized the Freedom Summer '92, a voter - registration campaign and founded the same year the Third Wave Foundation, a national organization for young feminists 15-30 years, she led for ten years.

In recent years, Richards dedicated especially to her teaching and consulting activities, writing essays, books, and her column Ask Amy feminist.com. It supports various groups, among others, Planned Parenthood who support abortion rights. She herself became the center of a scandal when she had described in the New York Times that, owing to their personal situation in life two fetuses had expected triplets of abortion.

Works

• Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000, ISBN 0-374-52622-2 (English, about the third wave in the U.S. with a historical retrospect )
• Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards, Winona LaDuke: Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005, ISBN 0-374-52865-9 (English)