Aanya Stepanov

Amie Williams is a video and print journalist based in Athens, Greece. She has over twenty years of experience, freelancing for such outlets as Al Jazeera, PBS, CBC, Huffington Post, TruthDig, KPFK Radio, Free Speech TV, SABC and Kenya Nation TV. She has also produced and directed 6 award-winning feature documentary films, branded content and series, broadcast on PBS and Al Jazeera English. Her body of work represents global, diverse, authentic storytelling from under-represented voices and regions.

Born and raised in the United States, Amie graduated from Yale University, B.A. in English and U.C.L.A. Graduate School with an M.F.A. in film directing. She writes, shoots and edits all her work. In 2010, in response to the glaring gender and racial inequity in news, she co-founded the NGO, GlobalGirl Media, which teaches under-represented young women in citizen journalism. GGM is now a global youth news organisation that trains and reports in South Africa, Kosovo, London, Greece, Guatemala, Chicago, and Los Angeles . Amie regularly activates this network of emerging journalists to assist her in projects.  

Recently relocated from Los Angeles to Athens, Amie has also been building a portfolio of reporting on refugees/migrants. Last year, Amie was named "One of 50 Women Who Can Change Media and Entertainment," by Take The Lead, and won the With And For Girls Award in 2018. Earlier in her career she was chosen together with an international group of documentary filmmakers by the American Film Institute and the U.S. State Department to tour five countries with her film NO SWEAT about female garment workers and American Apparel in Los Angeles. In 2014, her film, WE ARE WISCONSIN was named by Michael Moore "one of this decade's most significant films for revealing an era of corporate greed." She is also a recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur International Peace Award in 1990.