Amy Richards

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards have worked together on various projects since they met as 22-year-olds at Ms. magazine. In October 2000, a book they co-wrote about the state of the women’s movement, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. That book served as the platform for a national speaking tour that brought the two authors to literally dozens of community groups, countless bookstores, and some 150 universities and high schools. Joint writings by Baumgardner and Richards can be found in The Nation and several anthologies, including Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century. They have just completed a new book about everyday activism, Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism.