Amy Contrada

 Associate Fellow in the Study of Propaganda and Cultural Revolution

 Amy L. Contrada earned a B.A. summa cum laude at Tufts University, an M.A.T. in Social Studies at Brown University, and a Diploma in Violin Making at North Bennet Street School (Boston). Early on, she attended Oberlin Conservatory as a violinist.

Amy grew up in Ohio but has lived in Massachusetts for the past four decades. Since 2004, she has been a researcher, reporter, writer, and blogger with the pro-family organization MassResistance. Prior to that, she worked as an administrator (and earlier as a staff assistant) at Harvard University, as a high-school teacher, and as a violin maker.

Through her two children (now adults), she experienced the worst American public education had to offer in the Lexington and Acton, Massachusetts public schools, and lived through the difficulty of home schooling and long-distance commuting to private Christian schools. The family’s experience in the public schools was one motive for her political activism.

Amy’s writings combine her frontline observations with careful documentation. In 2011 she published her book, Mitt Romney’s Deception: His Stealth Promotion of “Gay Rights” and “Gay Marriage in Massachusetts” (available at Amazon). Given its controversial subject matter, coverage has been primarily on Christian radio stations and conservative or Christian websites, including WorldNetDaily, RenewAmerica, and Christian Post. Chapters from her book are available as Amazon Kindle E-books under the titles: How “Gay Marriage” Came to Massachusetts: Governor Mitt Romney’s Failure in a Constitutional Crisis, and Romney vs. Family Values: The Romney Administration’s Radical Homosexual Programs Targeting Children in Massachusetts.

Amy’s early political reporting was for a pro-family group in Lexington, Mass. and later for Massachusetts News. From 2005-2010, she covered pro-family issues, sexual-radical activism, and the “gay marriage” crisis in Massachusetts on her blog, MassResistance.

Amy’s recent research (available at www.AmyContrada.com) includes articles on Mitt Romney’s liberal record (his judicial appointments as Governor; his support of companies with radical social policies as a businessman); numerous articles on Kevin Jennings, the founder of GLSEN (Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network) and former “Safe Schools Czar” under Obama; a seminal analysis of the “transgender rights” movement in Massachusetts; plus videos and photos from the belly of the beast. Her important research on Elena Kagan’s “queering” of Harvard Law School (with Brian Camenker and Peter LaBarbera) has been roundly ignored.

She is married, has two adult children and a beautiful grandchild, and lives in the ex-urbs of Boston.

Find more about Amy Contrada's work at http://www.amycontrada.com/.