May 5, 2024

Amy Keller

Florida Trend Executive Editor • akeller@floridatrend.com

Amy Keller

Amy Keller is executive editor of Florida Trend and oversees the magazine’s editorial department. Keller was named to the post in February 2024, after previously serving as interim executive editor and managing editor. She first joined the magazine in 2005, after more than a decade covering Congress as a reporter for Roll Call newspaper. During her two stints at Florida Trend, she has covered everything from state politics to the legal arena, education, technology and health care. She has won numerous journalism awards, including a first place Green Eyeshade Award in 2022 from the Society of Professional Journalists for public service in magazine journalism for her in-depth look at cryptocurrency. The same year, she won a Green Eyeshade for general news writing for her profile of Florida Trend’s 2021 Floridian of the Year, Lift Orlando. Keller’s writings have also appeared in Salon, The New Republic, Broadcasting & Cable magazine, REALTOR Magazine, the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Detroit Jewish News and other publications. Keller graduated from The Ohio State University in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Articles by Keller:

UCF's future plans for College of Nursing help address nursing shortage
The University of Central Florida is planning to build a new home for its College of Nursing adjacent to the UCF College of Medicine on the school's 50-acre health sciences campus in Lake Nona.
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Award-winning filmmaker Todd Thompson produces movies he hopes will inspire, enlighten audiences
Todd Thompson knew at a young age that he wanted to make films. He caught the bug when he was about 8, when his father took him to see Star Wars. After that, he started experimenting with his grandfather's 8mm camera and making his own “homemade, independent” films using the money he earned cutting grass to buy film. “It would take me months because it was expensive for a little kid back then,” recalls Thompson.
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Accelerated nursing programs in Florida help get new nurses into practice faster
While nursing wasn't her first career, Proebe Ybanez always felt a pull toward the profession. As a teenager growing up in the Philippines, she recalls feeling helpless as she watched her great-aunt suffer a massive seizure.
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Jane Poynter
In 1991, Jane Poynter, then 29 years old, volunteered along with seven others to spend two years living inside an airtight dome in the Arizona desert. The purpose of the privately funded science project, known as Biosphere 2, was to create a ground-based test bed for a space settlement — an enclosed habitat where humans could live for extended periods by farming their own food and recycling their air, water and waste.
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Orlando International Airport debuts its new $2.75-billion,15-gate terminal
Orlando International Airport debuted its new $2.75-billion, 15-gate terminal, which features a slew of technological touches. Among the highlights are:
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Central Florida researchers working on new tactics to treat and diagnose breast cancer
Growing up in her native Kenya, Bindi Nagda, now a doctoral student in applied mathematics at Florida Tech, noticed that people in underdeveloped regions of the country lacked access to sophisticated medical imaging technology or couldn't afford accurate and reliable health care screenings — and those barriers were costing lives. In Kenya, up to 80% of cancer cases aren't diagnosed until the late stages, and nearly 79% of patients don't survive.
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Florida's rapid rise of No Party Affiliation voters
Amid the acrimony of partisan politics, the ranks of Florida's unaffiliated voters are growing rapidly. Their elusive and critical votes reflect changing demographics.
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Non-profit created by children of doctors helps seniors stay connected with their physicians
The shift to telemedicine has been heralded as one of the silver livings of the COVID-19 crisis, but it hasn't been a simple shift for everyone, says Arjun Verma, a 2022 graduate of Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando. His parents are both doctors, and “many of their patients, especially elderly patients, didn't have access to the devices they needed to connect to their virtual health care appointments” during the pandemic, he says.
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Tennis sees resurgence during the pandemic
It's 90-plus degrees on a weekday morning in mid-July, but the 64-acre campus of the U.S. Tennis Association in Lake Nona is hopping. On 12 collegiate courts at the northeast corner of campus, summer camp participants are practicing serves and returns. Across the grounds in the tournament area, the nation's top players in the boys' 12-and-under division are battling it out in the national clay court championships. And inside the welcome center, younger summer camp players are milling about the pro shop and ducking into the Netpost Grill with their parents for a bite to eat.
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Along with the price of natural gas, Floridian's electric bills are climbing sky-high
The price of natural gas — which generates roughly 75% of Florida's electricity — more than doubled over the summer and is driving increases in electric bills at utilities around the state.
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