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 actor, producer, writer, and director. He and his producing partners comedian J.B. Smoove and comedy manager Rick Dorfman are the founders of the TV & Film-centric Alternate Side Productions. Miles is also a former teaching artist and the author of the childrens’ book series “The Tyrell Show.”

In July 2022 Miles partnered with HOTM for Just Futures’ “Voices Across Generations: Race and New London” multimedia performance project at Connecticut College. He is the playwright and key collaborator for “Celebratio Vitae,” a new HOTM project developed through our THRIVE (Theater-making: Honoring Resilience In Various Experiences) partnership with The University of Rochester.

Raliegh Neal II is a prolific artist who has dedicated his life to music. He has over 40 years of live performance experience with artists such as Stacy Lattisaw, Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Omar Lye-Fook MBE,  Malik Yoba, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Walter Beasley, Deborah Bond, Be Be Winans, Trevor Hall, Herbie Hancock, The Groove Collective, Ledisi, Brett Dennen, Stephanie Mills and many more. Raliegh has led music education programs and various leadership and creative workshops for students ages 5 to adult in NYC, LA and the SF Bay Area. He has also composed featured songs and scores for Television, Movies and Gaming.

Curtis Wiley: Original Broadway Company of Ain’t Too Proud. NYC highlights include: The Total Bent (Public Theatre); Rothschild & Sons (York Theatre Co.); as well as Pageant – The Musical, and The Great Society. National Tours: The Lion King; Jersey Boys. Additionally, Curtis appeared in the world premiere of American Prophet: Frederick Douglass In His Own Words (Arena Stage); and most recently, in The Suffragette’s Murder (Denver Center). Stream “Queens Of Christmas” on BET+ and stay in touch on IG: @Curtis_Wiley