Prior to joining GSO, Amy spent nearly seventeen years working to ensure that everyone could have a family if, when, and with whom they wanted as the Vice-President of Special Projects at NARAL Pro-Choice America and as the State Director for NARAL Pro-Choice California. Amy launched NARAL's first, innovative, multi-level corporate engagement initiative to educate, engage, and mobilize the corporate sector to support reproductive freedom. Amy led, with other stakeholders, the unprecedented and historic Don't Ban Equality declaration that secured more than 360 CEO signatures in support of the business case for reproductive freedom.
Amy has also been an innovative advocate for reproductive freedom for women and families throughout California. Under her leadership, California is the only state to successfully regulate anti-choice fake women's health centers and hold them accountable for their false advertising. Amy's background in campaigns and elections, grassroots and grasstops organizing and coalition building has positioned NARAL as one of the top advocacy organizations for reproductive freedom in the state. Under Everitt’s leadership, California has been a pro-choice pioneer - defeating extreme anti-choice measures, electing pro-choice majorities to both chambers of the state legislatures, passing groundbreaking legislation like the Duty to Dispense Act and the Reproductive FACT Act, and growing NARAL’s membership to over 200,000 strong.
She has worked on campaigns throughout California including Kamala Harris for SF DA, Kathleen Brown for Governor, SF Supervisor Wille B. Kennedy and numerous state assembly and senate races. While at the Democratic National Committee she focused on redistricting, establishing the first Rural Caucus and electing Mark Warner Governor of Virginia, Jim McGreevy Governor of New Jersey, Kathleen Sebelious Governor of Virginia and Dave Freudenthal Governor of Wyoming and re-electing the North Dakota federal delegation in 2002.
Outside of politics, she lived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for three years serving as the Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of HCMC and as a freelance journalist for the Vietnam Business Journal and the Vietnam Investment Review. Amy was also the Country Manager at the U.S. Trade & Development Agency for Southeast Asia bridging business opportunities for American companies with infrastructure needs in developing countries.
Amy currently sits on the Board of the Center for Civic Engagement and is active with the Silicon Valley DemFems. Previously, she served as the Board Chair for Emerge California, Board Chair for the UCSC Alumni Council and on the Steering Committee for the Civil Rights Coalition of CA.
She is a 5th generation Californian with deep roots in San Francisco and Newman, CA who attended UC Santa Cruz (BA, Politics) and UC San Diego, School of Global Policy & Strategy (MPIA). She currently lives in Burlingame with her three kids and, more often than not, with her nephew-dog, Eddy.