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Amy Siskind

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| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1965|12|16}}
| birth_place   = [[Marblehead, Massachusetts]] U.S.
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| alma_mater    = [[Cornell University]]<br> [[NYU Stern School of Business]]
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| subjects      = Politics, women's rights
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| notablework   = ''The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year'' (2018)
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'''Amy Siskind''' (born December 16, 1965) is an American activist and writer. She is the author of ''The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year'' (2018) and organizer of We the People March.

== Early life and education ==
Siskind was born in [[Marblehead, Massachusetts]], to [[Jew|Jewish]] parents, Bernard Siskind and Selma Lipsky Siskind, and was the youngest of five siblings.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 29, 2012|title=Obituary of Bernard Siskind|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/wickedlocal-marblehead/obituary.aspx?n=bernard-siskind&pid=162012574&fhid=5818|website=The Marblehead Reporter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=17 April 2018|title=Marblehead native Amy Siskind has turned her online Trump 'List' into a book - Itemlive|url=https://www.itemlive.com/2018/04/17/marblehead-native-amy-siskind-turned-online-trump-list-book/|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Letter to the Editor: Happy with Tribute|url=https://jewishjournal.org/2016/10/13/letter-to-the-editor-happy-with-tribute/|website=jewishjournal.org}}</ref> She attended Marblehead High School, and was graduated in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marblehead High School Virtual Yearbook|url=https://www.allhighschools.com/school/marblehead-high-school/422757|publisher=}}</ref> She received a BA in Economics from [[Cornell University]] in 1987,<ref>{{Cite web|title=What I Learned from What I Wish I Knew at 22|url=http://eship.dyson.cornell.edu/blog/2015/03/10/what-i-learned-from-what-i-wish-i-knew-at-22/|website=eship.dyson.cornell.edu}}</ref> and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the NYU Stern School of Business in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|title=To The Contrary Panelists|url=http://www.pbs.org/to-the-contrary/panelists/3326/siskind-|access-date=2018-07-06|website=www.pbs.org|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==

=== Early career ===
As a Wall Street executive, Siskind was a innovator and expert in the distressed debt trading market. She became the first female Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella &amp;amp; Co. in 1996, at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at [[Morgan Stanley]] and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner.<ref name="AboutAmy">{{Cite web|title=About Amy|url=https://theweeklylist.org/about-amy/|access-date=2018-07-06|website=The Weekly List}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=University|first=Office of Web Communications, Cornell|title=What I Wish I Knew at 22|url=https://events.cornell.edu/event/what_i_wish_i_knew_at_22|access-date=2018-07-06|website=Cornell|language=en}}</ref> Siskind worked 20 years on Wall Street before she retired in 2006.<ref name="TrumpWon">{{Cite news|last=Sullivan|first=Margaret|date=2017-06-25|title=Perspective: Trump won, and Amy Siskind started a list of changes. Now it's a sensation.|language=en-US|work=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-won-and-amy-siskind-started-a-list-of-changes-now-its-a-sensation/2017/06/23/cdba2b12-575e-11e7-b38e-35fd8e0c288f_story.html|access-date=2018-04-29|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

=== Political activism ===

== Personal life ==
Siskind lives in [[Westchester County, New York]] with her two children.<ref name="patch">{{Cite news|date=2018-07-09|title=Mamaroneck's Siskind Continues Documenting The Trump Era|language=en-US|work=Larchmont-Mamaroneck, NY Patch|url=https://patch.com/new-york/larchmont/mamaronecks-siskind-continues-documenting-trump-era|access-date=2018-07-28}}</ref><ref name="AboutAmy">{{Cite web|title=About Amy|url=https://theweeklylist.org/about-amy/|access-date=2018-07-06|website=The Weekly List}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Amy Siskind -|url=http://aroomofherownfoundation.org/amy-siskind/|website=aroomofherownfoundation.org}}</ref> She is openly lesbian.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Times|first=Windy City|title=With 'The List,' Amy Siskind documents democracy's downfall|url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/BOOKS-With-The-List-Amy-Siskind-documents-democracys-downfall/62307.html|website=Windy City Times}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{External media}}

* Amy Siskind on LinkedIn
* [https://theweeklylist.org/ TheWeeklyList.org]
* [https://anchor.fm/the-weekly-list ''The Weekly List'' podcast]
* [http://www.thenewagenda.net The New Agenda]
* {{C-SPAN|113293}}
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[[Category:LGBT Jews]]
[[Category:Lesbian feminists]]
[[Category:Jewish feminists]]
[[Category:Writers from New York]]
[[Category:Writers from Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Cornell University alumni]]
[[Category:American political writers]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1965 births]]