Amy Yenkin

Amy Yenkin is the director of the Open Society Institute’s Documentary Photography Project, based in New York City. She joined OSI in 1994 as the deputy director of scholarships and later held the positions of associate director of the Open Media Research Institute (an OSI-related organization based in Prague) and associate director of OSI’s U.S. Programs.

Yenkin helped establish the Moving Walls exhibition in 1998, and in 2004 developed and launched OSI’s Documentary Photography Project. Prior to OSI, she worked in Washington, D.C., as the director of government relations for NAFSA: Association of International Educators, where she represented U.S. colleges and universities in lobbying the U.S. Congress and government agencies on immigration policies affecting foreign students and the hiring of foreign faculty and researchers. She received her BA in history from the University of Michigan.