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= Amy Richards = -add to the lead: Richards currently resides in New York. She is a producer, having produced the series Woman, which is Emmy nominated and airs on Viceland. She is the president of Soapbox, Inc., which is a feminist lecture agency.

Amelia "Amy" Richards

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Early Life
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Amy Richards was born on February 9th, 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia to Albert Wentz and Karen Richards. She grew up in Pennsylvania. Her father, Wentz, was not a part of her life. She attended Tabor Academy, a private, boarding school in Marion, Massachusetts. After graduating from high school Tabor, she graduated cum laude from Barnard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History in 1992. She was a NCAA Division I soccer player at Barnard. She is also a four-time marathon runner.

Career
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Amy Richards embarked on an unexpected career as a feminist activist, writer, and organizer when she became involved in a summer project, Freedom Summer '92, a cross-country voter registration drive. She is most notably known for having written Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, along with Jennifer Baumgardner. The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2000 with an anniversary and updated edition published in 2010. She authored Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself, about feminism and motherhood, and is a co-author of Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. She wrote Insight Guides: Shopping in New York City. She also wrote the article "LIVES; When One is Enough", about her experience becoming pregnant with triplets, and deciding to terminate two of them, giving birth to the third. She and Marianne Schnall contributed the piece "Cyberfeminism: Networking the Net" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The LA Times, Bust, Ms., and numerous anthologies, including Listen Up, Body Outlaws and Catching A Wave. She has tackled issues ranging from plastic surgery to abortion politics. She was the interim project director for Twilight: Los Angeles by Anna Deavere Smith. She is also the editor of I Still Believe Anita Hill, a collection of essays featuring Eve Ensler,Catharine MacKinnon, Lynn Nottage and others.

Third Wave Feminism
Richards's leadership and visionary work launched her as a primary spokesperson and leading voice for young feminist issues. Since then she has assumed that role by lecturing at hundreds of venues, writing books and articles about feminism, and making numerous media appearances all in an attempt to confirm that younger people are making bold and transformative contributions to their communities. She is the voice to "Ask Amy", an online advice column she has run at feminist.com since 1995. In addition to writing, Richards is a producer. She produced Viceland's Woman, as well as being a consulting producer for Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words for HBO and an advisor on MAKERS: Women Making America, a PBS documentary on the women's movement. Richards is a co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation, which is now know as the Third Wave Fund, a national organization for young feminist activists between the ages of 15 and 30. In July of 2002, she co-founded and became president of Soapbox Inc., an organization based on feminism. She served as a cultural attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Russia, consulting on women’s issues. She has been a long-time consultant to Gloria Steinem and Anna Deavere Smith, as well as the Columbia School of Public Health among other places. She serves on the boards and advisory boards of organizations such as Sadie Nash Leadership Project and Chicken & Egg Productions, feminist.com, Ms. Magazine, and Fair Fund. She is an abortion rights activist, having terminated the pregnancy of her twins within a pregnancy where she was expecting triplets.

Appearances and Awards
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Richards has appeared in a range of media venues including Fox's The O’Reilly Factor, Oprah, Talk of the Nation, New York One and CNN. Woman, which she produced, is now Emmy nominated. In 2009, Richards was in residence at the writers retreat, Hedgebrook. She was first publicly distinguished as a leader in 1995 when Who Caresmagazine chose her as one of twenty-five "Young Visionaries."

She went on to win many accolades:


 * Ms. magazine, which profiled her in "21 for the 21st: Leaders for the Next Century."
 * Women's Enews, which in 2003 named her one of their "Leaders for the 21st Century."
 * The American Association of University Women, which chose her as a 2004 Woman of Distinction.
 * Barnard College, which honored her for her achievements in 2007.

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * The information in the article is very relevant to the shooting.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The state of Cruz's mental health being stated seems to frame how Cruz is supposed to be perceived. References made during the political section could be interpreted as biased. The article has a banner on the section about gun advocacy stating that this section is not unbiased or is holding too much importance.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Cruz's behavior prior to the shooting is vague. There should be more explanation on what he was like. The students organization Never Again should have more information and higher ranking of importance.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Yes, the links work. The sources are all relevant to the article and support the claims being made.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * I do not necessarily believe that all of the sources are reliable because they are mostly from different news outlets, which can be biased.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * All of the information appears to be accurate because it happened so recently.
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * The Talk page has some correspondence that is not very nice. Users are not signing their commentary. There are a lot of potential claims being made on the Talk page and not a lot of consensus. There is disagreement among editors regarding different information and what information that is the most accurate.
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 * This topic is being added to many WikiProjects.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * We talked about this topic regarding how Wikipedia would write about it before I read the article. Claims we made as a class about calling Cruz the "shooter" instead of discussing his gender and referencing mental health were among the topics we expected to see in the article, and they are apparent in the article.
 * We talked about this topic regarding how Wikipedia would write about it before I read the article. Claims we made as a class about calling Cruz the "shooter" instead of discussing his gender and referencing mental health were among the topics we expected to see in the article, and they are apparent in the article.