Amy Blackman was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. After receiving an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, she moved to LA. There, she discovered her career-love path, Band Management, which she did for 18 years, managing the global businesses of multi-GrammyAward winning music artists and producers. Between 2007-2011, Amy was made Cultural Ambassador for the US State Department. She produced 18 different public diplomacy missions in regions that had never before seen live music from the West. 

Dreams fulfilled, she sold her house, quit her job, and took a two-year sabbatical, attending Georgetown University for a Global Executive MBA. She was recruited to run the North America subsidiary of a global multimedia design agency, and then was appointed VP at Contend Immersive, where she ran a global team of rogue, vanguard and brilliant strategists, designers, artists, branders. Her latest venture, Fruition.co, is the coalescing of her life, work, and academic adventures. For fun, Amy does international channel swimming expeditions.