Baker Artist Portfolios

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

Amy served as senior director of the video team at the Human Rights Campaign, where she produced and supervised the production of projects like “Daniel Really Suits You,” along with a major studio overhaul, and production and branding oversight on major campaigns. The “Daniel Really Suits You” film and campaign, supported by the Red Nose Foundation, won the 2025 social impact award at TribecaX, screened at Sundance’s BrandStorytelling slate in 2025, and earned a 2024 Vimeo Staff Pick.

Amy’s independent work has been supported by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, earned national distribution via PBS, has been fiscally sponsored by the International Documentary Association, and has been granted fellowship in the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins. She has filmed for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the AFL-CIO, managed multimedia for a United States Presidential Library, and shot on location with the team that produced the original Carl Sagan “Cosmos” series for PBS.

Amy served as a senior producer and manager of multiplatform strategy at PBS’s Maryland Public Television for seven years, 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 earned three Emmy Awards, and shed light on a variety of social and scientific topics, including the Baltimore uprising, fracking, mass incarceration, and the opioid crisis.

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