Amy Nelson

Amy Nelson (; born 1980) is an American entrepreneur, lawyer, and writer. In January 2017, she founded The Riveter, an organization that provided work space and other services to support working women. She is the co-host of the podcast, What's Her Story With Sam & Amy.

As an author, she has been published in Inc. Magazine and Forbes.

Early life and education Amy Sterner Nelson was born in 1980 and grew up in Ohio. Nelson's mother was a middle school teacher and her father an attorney. Nelson developed an interest in politics in her youth, going door-to-door for political campaigns. Initially, she did corporate litigation for Cahill Gordon & Reindel. She also worked in fundraising for pro-choice political candidates.

Nelson moved to Seattle in 2012 with Carleton Phillip Nelson, her then-boyfriend and now-husband, who was employed as an executive in Amazon.com's real estate acquisitions & development organization from 2012 until he was terminated in May 2019. The podcast features interviews with women at the top of their field and has included Gloria Steinem, Abby Wambach, Randi Zuckerberg, Huma Abedin, and Melinda Gates.

On May 8, 2025, Nelson posted to her personal Instagram account an allegation that, in 2020, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos leveraged his political influence to pursue federal criminal charges against her spouse, Carleton Nelson, for unspecified violations of his then-Amazon employment contract. Amy Nelson alleged these actions by Bezos led to a midnight armed raid of her home by federal agents while her daughters, then under age 6, were in the home, and were terrorized. Nelson stated she and Carleton had to sell their house to pay for lawyers, and that charges were never filed, and that the federal judge dropped all charges. Amy Nelson said she made the post after being ignored by Washington's governor and federal lawmakers.