Amie Newman

Director of Communications, Jewish Family Services

Seattle, WA

 
 
 
 
 

Amie is a native New Yorker shaped by decades in the Pacific Northwest. She built a career at the intersection of advocacy journalism, feminist health communications, and nonprofit leadership. With a deep commitment to reproductive justice and health equity, her work spans local and global contexts — from working in television on shows for MTV and PBS in her early years to frontline communications at a feminist abortion clinic in Seattle to supporting women's access to contraception and safe birthing options in Kenya and India.

Amie served as Managing Editor and Senior Staff Writer at RH Reality Check (now Rewire News), where she covered reproductive health policy, access to care, and maternal health—writing extensively about issues from abortion politics to breastfeeding equity. Her writing has been cited in numerous books on reproductive rights, childbirth, violence against women, and public health.

She contributed to the 2011 edition of the seminal book Our Bodies, Ourselves and was the site’s staff blogger, covering topics like racial disparities in maternal mortality and the realities of pelvic organ prolapse. She also helped shape digital storytelling at the Gates Foundation, co-creating content for the blog Impatient Optimists to amplify global health initiatives.

Currently, Amie serves on the executive team of a major Seattle-based nonprofit supporting Jewish individuals and families, refugees, immigrants, and the wider community. She continues to work as an abortion doula, providing emotional and logistical support to those navigating abortion care, and is a certified yoga teacher. Her personal essays and poetry explore trauma, healing, and the deeply human dimensions of justice.

Amie Newman, BOMA Media Fellow