Theresa Amato
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Chicago-born Theresa Amato is a public advocate and author who has worked for two decades, from the local to the international, for and with several nonprofit organizations to advance civic rights by training citizen advocates, promoting access to information, watchdogging government and corporate power, and influencing public policy.
In the last two decades, Amato has received several public interest honors, including being named a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School for her dedication to public interest law, and being selected as a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she led a seminar entitled "Mobilizing for Justice: How to Take on the System and Make a Difference." Amato has...more
Chicago-born Theresa Amato is a public advocate and author who has worked for two decades, from the local to the international, for and with several nonprofit organizations to advance civic rights by training citizen advocates, promoting access to information, watchdogging government and corporate power, and influencing public policy.
In the last two decades, Amato has received several public interest honors, including being named a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School for her dedication to public interest law, and being selected as a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she led a seminar entitled "Mobilizing for Justice: How to Take on the System and Make a Difference." Amato has received both the NYU Law and Loyola University of Chicago Law School Public Interest Awards, and she was named at age 32 by the American Lawyer as one of the future leaders of the legal profession as one of the country's "45 young lawyers (under 45) whose vision and commitment are changing lives."
In both 2000 and 2004, Amato served as the national presidential campaign manager and in-house counsel for Ralph Nader, producing the highest vote count in the United States for a third-party progressive candidate in the last 85 years, and shepherding myriad election reform efforts and litigation to open up the political system to competition. In 2009, The New Press (New York) published her book, Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny, based on these experiences. She also appears prominently in the Sundance-selected and Academy Awards short-listed documentary titled "An Unreasonable Man," which was in theatrical release throughout the United States in early 2007, and is now available in DVD.
Amato lives in Oak Park, IL with her spouse Todd Main and their two daughters. (less)
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2008
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