Circle Members

Amelie grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, spent six formative years in the 1970s in Berkeley, CA, and has lived in Boston since 1978. Since leaving the south she’s made it a point to support the work of progressive organizers and organizations across the region, including Highlander Research and Education Center, Project South, and the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. As a person with more than she needs, Amelie has been philanthropically focused and made strategic alliances with networks of donors to increase the impact of her giving. She worked with Resource Generation, the Women Donors Network, and Threshold Foundation to raise $3 million to be distributed by the Twenty-First Century Foundation to grassroots organizations and organizers in the post-Katrina and -Rita Gulf South. She routinely hosts groups for fundraisers at her house and has for years housed visiting artists, interns, and board members for local, national, and international organizations needing space in Boston. Currently, she supports Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), with whom she hosts monthly SURJ brunches to bring new folks into the organization.