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Amy Isikoff Newell: engineering leader, boot fanatic, mental illness advocacy, poetry, random: you have reached the hub for all my internet stuff

Looking for deets about my engineering career and leadership coaching? Here’s some more info.

looking for my newsletter? of course you are, where else can you read someone tying engineering leadership to mental illness to boot collections to taylor swift? see www.amywriteswords.com and subscribe!

looking for my other newsletter? I also write Woe: Mental Health Tips You’ll Hate From the Saddest Woman in the World. You can subscribe here: https://buttondown.email/woe

looking for my work as an engineering leader? Find my shitposts and deep thoughts on twitter, my profile on linkedin, or check out this list of talks, podcasts, and publications.

looking for some of my mental health stuff? Here’s a peer-reviewed paper I co-authored about digital apps for mental health which might explain why I probably don’t want to work at your digital mental health startup. Here’s a poem I wrote about bipolar disorder that is a bitter retort to a Lady Gaga song. Here’s a talk I gave in 2019 that links mental illness to invisible disabilities to productivity at work. Here’s another link to my other newsletter: https://buttondown.email/woe

interested in my office hours for women/nonbinary/genderqueer folks in engineering?

If you are a woman, nonbinary, genderqueer, or gender-fluid, and you want free eng (or general) management advice live (on zoom) from a real human with years of experience, sign up here: https://calendly.com/amy-newell/office-hours

If you would like such advice and you do not identify as a woman or nonbinary/genderqueer/genderfluid person or a close personal friend, please get in touch with me and ask about my coaching rates.

looking for the instagram account where, as @amywearsboots, I post endless self-portraits at the intersection of fashion, fetish, feminism and fantasy? Yes, I do take those pics myself (unless otherwise credited), yes, I do style myself, yes, I am open to collabs in which I model, photograph, or both. No I am not bothered if you came here looking for my engineering leadership or mental illness content and you find you like the pics too. That said, please read this essay about that project before emailing me to tell me how hot I look in a bikini.

If everything about @amywearsboots makes you uncomfortable simply do not follow me! You can find the photos I take of other people/cats/interesting bark at @amymakespix instead.