Amy Siskind

Amy Siskind
Siskind in April 2018
Born (1965-12-16) December 16, 1965
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Occupation Activist, author
Residence Mamaroneck, New York
Nationality American
Alma mater Cornell University
NYU Stern School of Business
Subjects Politics, women's rights
Notable work The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year (2018)
Years active 2008–present

Amy Siskind (born December 16, 1965) is an American activist and writer. In 2008 she founded The New Agenda, an organization devoted to the empowerment of women, and she is its president.[1] She is the author of The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year (2018).

Early life and education

Siskind was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts to Jewish parents, Bernard Siskind and Selma Lipsky Siskind, and is the youngest of five siblings.[2][3][4] She attended Marblehead High School, graduating in 1984.[5]

She received a BA in Economics from Cornell University in 1987[6] and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the NYU Stern School of Business in 1992.[7]

Career

As a Wall Street executive, Siskind was a pioneer in the distressed debt trading market. She became the first female Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner.[8][9]

In August 2008, she co-founded The New Agenda in her living room with 30 Hillary Clinton supporters who were upset with the sexism and misogyny in evidence during the 2008 election.[10][11] It is a non-profit organization "dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls by bringing about systemic change in the media, at the workplace, at school and at home".[11] As of August 2018 she is its president.[12]

In November 2016, Siskind started keeping a weekly list of not-normal events of the Trump administration, and posting the lists on social media.[13] In September 2017, she was named in Politico's 2017 "Politico 50".[14] In March 2018 she compiled the first year of weekly lists and published them as The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year. In June 2018, Siskind started The Weekly List podcast to accompany the lists;[15] writing in Forbes in July 2018, Jo Piazza listed this as one of the "Podcasts Created by Women You Need to Be Listening To Right Now".[16]

Personal life

Siskind lives in Mamaroneck, New York with her two children.[15][8][17] She is openly lesbian.[18]

Works

  • The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. ISBN 9781635572711 [19][20][21][22][23][24]

References

  1. ↑ "Dynamo Amy Siskind and How her "The New Agenda" Helps Women find their Voices". Inside Chappaqua and Inside Armonk: The Magazines for New and North Castle. 2016-09-28. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  2. ↑ "Bernard Siskind's Obituary on The Marblehead Reporter". The Marblehead Reporter.
  3. ↑ "Marblehead native Amy Siskind has turned her online Trump 'List' into a book - Itemlive". 17 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Letter to the Editor: Happy with Tribute". jewishjournal.org.
  5. ↑ "Marblehead High School Virtual Yearbook".
  6. ↑ "What I Learned from What I Wish I Knew at 22 - Entrepreneurship@Dyson". eship.dyson.cornell.edu.
  7. ↑ "To The Contrary Panelists | To The Contrary". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  8. 1 2 "About Amy". The Weekly List. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  9. ↑ University, Office of Web Communications, Cornell. "What I Wish I Knew at 22". Cornell. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  10. ↑ "It's No Longer Just About Hillary | RealClearPolitics". Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  11. 1 2 "About Us - The New Agenda".
  12. ↑ "2017 Board of Directors and Officers". The New Agenda. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  13. ↑ Sullivan, Margaret (2017-06-25). "Perspective | Trump won, and Amy Siskind started a list of changes. Now it's a sensation". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  14. ↑ "#37 Amy Siskind - POLITICO 50 2017". Politico. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  15. 1 2 "Mamaroneck's Siskind Continues Documenting The Trump Era". Larchmont-Mamaroneck, NY Patch. 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  16. ↑ Piazza, Jo (18 July 2018). "Podcasts Created by Women You Need to Be Listening To Right Now". Forbes. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  17. ↑ "Amy Siskind -". aroomofherownfoundation.org.
  18. ↑ Times, Windy City. "With 'The List,' Amy Siskind documents democracy's downfall". Windy City Times.
  19. ↑ Lozada, Carlos (2018-03-16). "Review | Think you remember every outrage of the Trump presidency so far? A new book will test you". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  20. ↑ "Amy Siskind lists the changes under President Donald Trump; now it's a book". lohud.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  21. ↑ "Changes under President Trump: Amy Siskind's list grows into a book". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  22. ↑ "Trump won, and Amy Siskind started a list of changes. Now it's a sensation". Philly.com. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  23. ↑ "Sullivan: In Donald Trump's America, a new list of grievances". Durango Herald. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  24. ↑ "Tracking the oldies but goodies of Trump presidency". Retrieved 2018-07-01.
External media
Audio
Make America “Normal” Again, WAMU
Amy Siskind Chronicles Trump's First Year, "U-God" on the Wu-Tang Clan, Can We Fix Our Bail System?, WNYC
Video
Video: Amy Siskind of Mamaroneck, author of "The List" speaking at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, Seth Harrison, Lohud
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