Amy Low

Amy Low was managing director for fellowships and non-profit journalism at the Emerson Collective — one of Comment’s philanthropic supporters — where she directed efforts to empower individuals and newsrooms to strengthen our shared conversation in the public square. For over five years, while battling colon cancer, Amy wrote the Substack Postcards from the Mountain and published a book called The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room. She leaves behind her children, Connor and Lucy, the two people she loved most in the world.