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“I ththinknk itit’s pretetty amazing ththatat Amy wilill go and workrk cattle and repair water gaps and all the things you do to run a ranch five days a week, and then she works here two days a week in direct contact with our clientele.” -
Walt Knorpp.
92 SPEEDHORSE, July 2019
“The crux of what I did in the Middle
East for those 10 years was to teach the things we take for granted here: citizen rights and responsibilities and interacting with elected officials,” she says. “A lot of those communities are marginalized so this work was empowering those marginalized communities and those front-line activists to be able to defend themselves within their society.”
As tiny as Amy is physically, she’s equally
as large in courage. “I never felt threatened by working there,” she says. “I had no qualms about where I was going, and oftentimes I was traveling alone. I’m probably more aware of my surroundings than most people, but I was never concerned. I don’t think I was naïve, but I do think I was relatively fearless.”
Amy had always assumed that at some point she’d move home, and in 2014, she returned
to the ranch to live. “In my time in the Middle East, I did lots of crazy things in terms of my work, but this is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done, hands down!”she says.
“I’m the sixth generation to live and work on the ranch,” she adds. “My great-great-great