AMPLIFY 2025 digital program

Amy Gottlieb serves as the U.S. Migration Director of the American Friends Service Committee. Amy is
responsible for leading AFSC’s work to address the economic and political drivers of migration and
ensure that migrants’ rights are respected in all circumstances. AFSC’s migration justice work supports
migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people. In addition to offering legal services, training, human
rights monitoring, and humanitarian relief, AFSC supports immigrant-led organizing and advocacy.

Amy previously served as AFSC’s Associate Regional Director for the northeast region. In this role, she
was responsible for supporting programs in the Northeast Region that focus on Immigrant Rights, Healing
Justice, and Youth Leadership. She was instrumental in the growth of direct legal services and organizing
and advocacy work. Amy has years of experience in practicing and teaching immigration law, and she has
been a longtime advocate for humane immigration policies, especially with a focus on the intersection of
immigration and criminal legal systems.

Amy worked from 2001 – 2014 as Program Director of the AFSC Immigrant Rights Program in Newark,
and prior to that as a staff attorney there from 1996 – 2001. Amy also worked as a Visiting Assistant
Clinical Professor in the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic during 2012. Amy graduated from Rutgers
Law School – Newark in 1996, where she has taught immigration law as an adjunct professor. She is the
former chair of the steering committee of the Detention Watch Network, and has been a proud board
member of Houses on the Moon Theater Company for over 20 years.

Musicambia (“music”+”change”) helps people in prison write, play, and perform music, cultivating
collaborative communities that nurture everyone involved. Musicambia’s Flagship Program, which began
at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 2014, meets every other weekend from September to June. Thirty
participants attend over four hours of classes, fostering teamwork, empathy, and responsibility to
themselves and fellow students. Musicambia also operates programs at Bedford Hills in New York,
Kansas, and California, annually reaching 125 incarcerated participants and audiences of 220 incarcerated
people at concerts. To learn more, please visit musicambia.org.

Miles Grose is an experienced writer/actor/producer/director who is the co-host of the Team CoCo-produced podcast, “May I Elaborate: Sound Wisdom With JB Smoove.” He is the author of the children’s book “The Tyrell Show” (Scholastic Publishing) and recently directed a celebrity-driven interview series for the MSG Network called “One Course.” Miles has worked as a Teaching Artist for over 25 years, and has a long standing relationship with Houses On The Moon and deep love for the work that they do. 

Ian Eaton credits his enrichment in theater beginning at Harlem School of the Arts, studying voice, violin, and acting as a youngster. He continued studying acting at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, and graduated with a BFA in Acting from City College. Television credits include Law and Order, and HBO’s Oz. Has also appeared in independent films, such as Signs He Made at Home portraying outsider artist Royal Robertson, and has had the privilege of performing national tours throughout the east coast. Theatrical roles include Charlie Parker in Flight at the Metropolitan Playhouse, Esteban in Day of the Kings at INTAR, Tara’s Crossing at The Lucille Lortel and Othello at The Clarion Theater. Has also spent 14 summers performing Shakespeare free of charge with Connecticut Free Shakespeare, and pre-pandemic completed an 8 week run of “Master Harold and the Boys” for the Arizona Theater Company to critical acclaim. Ian is a proud member of Only Make Believe, a non-profit organization that creates and performs interactive theater for children in hospitals and care facilities. Writing credits include a one man show called “Steve” – now titled “REAL 1” – which won Best Play at the Strawberry One Act Play festival 2019, and “SuperHero” – produced in the Spring of ‘22.