Amy Oden is an Emmy Award-winning producer and director known for her person-first documentary and multimedia work.

Amy leads the video team at the AFL-CIO, where she produces and oversees work advocating for working people across the United States. She previously served as senior director of video at the Human Rights Campaign, where her film DANIEL REALLY SUITS YOU and the associated TRANS STORIES ARE EVERYONE’S STORIES campaign, supported by the Comic Relief US, won the Social Impact Award at Tribeca X Awards in 2025, screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival BrandStorytelling slate, and earned a 2024 Vimeo Staff Pick.

Amy’s independent work has been supported by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, distributed nationally by PBS, fiscally sponsored by the International Documentary Association, and selected for fellowship in the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins University. She has filmed for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the AFL-CIO, managed multimedia for a United States presidential library, and worked on location with the team behind the original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage for PBS.

Amy served for seven years as a senior producer and manager of multiplatform strategy at Maryland Public Television, where she led content initiatives funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Maryland Department of Health, and the Maryland Department of Transportation. Her work there earned three Emmy Awards and explored a range of social and scientific issues, including the Baltimore uprising, fracking, mass incarceration, and the opioid crisis.

Amy holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park and an MA from George Washington University. Her work has also received Communicator, Emmy, Davey, Tribeca, and W3 Awards.