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Biography

   Amy is an award winning journalist who has worked in print, broadcast and digital media since 1991. Her first job in professional radio was at WVMX in Stowe, where she worked as News Director and co-host of The Morning Show.

   Amy spent 14 years as a reporter, host and producer at Vermont Public Radio. During that time she contributed to several national radio programs and podcasts, including National Public Radio's flagship news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

   Amy created, curated and hosted six seasons of Dorothy's List, Vermont Public's radio book club for middle grade readers.
   In 2019 Amy was named a National Reporting Fellow by the Education Writers Association. The fellowship funded Syllabus for Survival, a reporting project examining the struggles faced by Vermont's small, independent colleges.

   She has worked for several community newspapers, which she believes are foundational to our democracy. In addition to general beat reporting she has worked as an arts & entertainment editor, food writer, feature writer, and snow sports reporter and editor.

   Amy also taught journalism at Vermont State University, overseeing

the Johnson campus newspaper Basement Medicine.

    Amy currently works at NPR member station CAI, on

Cape Cod, as a science and environment reporter.

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