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**Amy Knowlton** is a Senior Scientist who has worked on the Right Whale Research Program since 1983. She has been involved in all aspects of the program, including fieldwork, curation of the photo-identification catalog, assessment of human impacts, and policy efforts to protect right whales. Amy’s main focus has been the detailed documentation of human impacts on right whales, including fishing-gear entanglement and vessel strikes. By evaluating these data in-depth and linking these findings with the operational aspects of the fishing and shipping industries, she has been able to share these findings with industry groups and guide policy changes in order to improve the protection of right whales from these activities. Photo: [Anderson Cabot Center](http://www.andersoncabotcenterforoceanlife.org/about-us/team-members/amy-knowlton/ "Amy Knowlton | ACCFOL")

Amy Korté is a design and project leader. Amy has a diverse background in environmental design, retail design, and development. Ms. Korté leads the design of much of Arrowstreet's residential work and holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a BFA in Environmental Design from Parsons. In addition, Amy is a NCIDQ certified interior designer, co-author of a book about hand drawing for designers, and has taught design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architectural Center, and Suffolk University. She is co-author of the ULI report: \_[The Urban Implications of Living with Water](http://boston.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2012/04/ULI\_LivingWithWater-Final1.pdf "Living With Water")\_

Landesberg is an Atlanta-based public artist and architect whose projects include a large-scale installation on the exterior of the Fulton County Center for Health and Rehabilitation and "Power Wrap," an enclosure for an electrical sub-station owned by Georgia Tech and Georgia Power.

**Amy Longsworth** joined the Boston Green Ribbon Commission as director in May 2015, after many years as a corporate sustainability strategy consultant, most recently with PricewaterhouseCoopers. In her role as director, she works with member organizations and other partners from across Boston’s business, philanthropic, and public sectors to help the City implement its Climate Action Plan.

Amy McCoy once enjoyed gourmet food with little concern for price, when she was a successful freelance producer for network and cable television. Then the recession hit and the freelance work all but disappeared. But in the economic downturn, McCoy found her mission: to eat the best food she and her husband could while spending as little as possible. To that end, McCoy created her blog, poorgirlgourmet.blogspot.com, where she offers up her insights alongside delicious gourmet recipes that are inexpensive to prepare. McCoy lives on a gentleman's farm in southeastern Massachusetts.

Amy O'Leary is a News Editor for NYTimes.com and a former public radio producer.

Amy Perlmutter is a consultant to economic development, policy, business, and advocacy leaders who are striving to advance goals that lead to meaningful environmental change. Amy has served as the first Director of Solid Waste for Passaic County, New Jersey; the Director of Recycling for the City and County of San Francisco; and the founding Executive Director of the Chelsea Center for Recycling and Economic Development. Amy served as the kick-off speaker at the Massachusetts legislature’s Green Economy Caucus, an appointment to Massachusetts Governor Patrick’s Transition Team on Energy and Environment. She also received an invitation to be in the first cohort of Fellows at UMass Lowell’s Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, a commendation for her efforts to improve the quality of life in the City and County of San Francisco. Amy enjoys talking to groups of all ages about environmental careers, environmental issues, and why they matter.

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.