Amy is an independent film director and editor based in Boulder, Colorado. She was born in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1978 to a young Indonesian birthmother, adopted as an infant by white, middle-class American parents, and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, with multiple journeys back to Southeast Asia for her father's work as a geographer and academic. As far back as she can remember, she’s seen the world through cinematic eyes, made sense of her life through music, and found heroes (and, often, films) in the shadow of the mainstream. Her love of nature and story led her to Washington, D.C., in 2000, where she honed her skills as a magazine editor for conservation nonprofits. In 2011, she made her first two documentaries on-set in Yosemite National Park, and two years later, she dove into filmmaking full time. Having spent years observing a conservation movement that's disproportionately white, she founded and co-directed the award-winning National Park Experience film series, amplifying diverse cultural stories in documentary films— including her first feature— that appeared in national parks, film festivals, and on PBS and nationalgeographic.com. She’s currently editing, shooting, and field directing a feature doc about a Colorado-based climber and his evolving self-awareness of his white privilege and fragility, as reflected by the young, urban Black man he originally sought to "save" through adventure. Amy's newest film, Ara, Untamed, is an intensely personal, genre-bending short about her and her 8-year-old daughter’s search for identity amidst the pandemic and racial reckoning in white suburbia. Amy has directed, cast, produced, filmed, and edited for a wide range of clients, including the Biden-Harris campaign, the Oscar-winning production company Fine Films, The Discovery Channel, and nonprofit organizations like Novick Cardiac Alliance and American Rivers. Last summer, she DPed a narrative scene for a Sundance workshop, and is currently developing her first narrative feature, a pandemic-era psychological thriller, with her life and creative partner, Jason Houston. Amy is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and Film Fatales, a board member on the Colorado Film and Video Association, and serves as a mentor for Girls Who Click, Community Resources, Inc., and the Wild Idea Lab. She looks forward to taking on more BIPOC- and female-led social justice film projects that help decolonize the film industry and push the boundaries of documentary-narrative hybrids. Amy's work has been supported by generous individuals, foundations, nonprofit organizations, production companies, media outlets, and outdoor industry brands such as REI, Osprey Packs, Pendleton, The North Face, La Sportiva, Marmot, MPowered, and GoalZero. In addition to filmmaking, she also serves as a story consultant, workshop coach, guest instructor, festival judge, and panelist, with guest appearances ranging from Costa Rica to Yale.