About

Emmy Award winning producer and director Amy Oden currently directs the video team at the Human Rights Campaign, where she produces and supervises the production of video content advocating for the LGBTQ+ community. Her recent project “Daniel Really Suits You” was admitted to Sundance’s BrandStorytelling slate in 2025.

Her latest independent short, “The World According to Pussy Noir”, supported by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, is in the festival circuit, and her other recent short, “Lipstick and Leather”, is distributed by PBS’s Reel South.

Amy also served as a senior producer and manager of multiplatform strategy at PBS’s Maryland Public Television for seven years, where she shed light on a variety of social and scientific topics, including the Baltimore uprising, fracking, mass incarceration, and the opioid crisis. Her work has been aired nationally on PBS, and she has been fiscally sponsored by the International Documentary Association, as well as granted fellowship in the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins.

Amy holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Maryland, and an MA in Gender and Media from George Washington University. Her work has won Communicator, Emmy, Davey, and W3 Awards.