about amy.
Amisha (Amy) Padnani is an award-winning senior staff editor at The New York Times and a keynote speaker on topics such as diversity and highlighting people who are often underrepresented in society.
She is the creator of a project called Overlooked, which tells the stories of remarkable women and people of color whose deaths were never reported by the paper in its 168-year history. After joining The Times's obituaries desk as an editor, Amy noticed that the section was dominated by white men and sought ways to balance its coverage. Overlooked launched in 2018 with the stories of 15 women, and has since included people of color and subjects from the L.G.B.T.Q. and disability communities. The project was adapted into three books. The project was also the inspiration for a musical production by The Waa-Mu Show at Northwestern University.
Amy's speaking engagements have included TED, Creative Mornings, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Dead Ladies Show, Dropbox, Button and other organizations. She has been interviewed on NPR, Democracy Now, CBC, CBS and the BBC and many other media organizations.
She was named Incredible Woman of the Year by Porter Magazine in 2018 and has won a number of other awards since.
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