Presenting our Junior Board Member: Meet Amy Bianca

Amy Bianca Lara, 24, is marketing professional in New York City. A feminist and a reproductive health advocate, Amy has dedicated her time to social justice since 2007. In 2009, she became the youngest recipient of the State of New Jersey’s “Best EMT Action by a Youth Award”. Since graduating from the University of Chicago in 2013, she has focused her efforts on cultivating an exciting career in media, as well as continuing to volunteer with nonprofit organizations in Chicago and New York City. Amy is a Hermana of Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority Incorporated, she enjoys running and drinking green smoothies in her free time. Amy’s number one passion is to generate gender equality in the United States by eliminating sexual violence, adopting healthy gender relations, and bringing issues of gender into conversation.