Amy Northup is an Intimacy Coordinator based in NYC, with an extensive background in directing and acting, sexual violence prevention, and consent education. Her extensive on-set experience and unique approach allows her to meet the needs of the production, directors, and cast.

In addition to her work on set, she is the Intimacy Advisor at NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, and is a proud teacher with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC), the leading and largest organization training and certifying intimacy professionals worldwide.

Her advocacy work extends to nightlife, where Amy is a longtime facilitator with OutSmartNYC, a non-profit dedicated to ending sexual violence in NYC Nightlife spaces.  She was awarded the first ever Emerging Leader in Sexual Violence Prevention in NYC by the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault. currently sits on the Manhattan Sexual Assault Task Force, and is a trained Crisis Counselor with The Crime Victims Treatment Center.

She lives in Brooklyn with her wife, Jesse, and their pup Sebastian.