April 25, 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:

Optics Tech Training
Valencia College is launching a 15-week accelerated training program in September to meet growing demand for skilled precision optics and photonics technicians in Central Florida.
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Office Optional
Coastal Cloud, a Palm Coast technology consulting company with several major offices across the country, embraced remote work long before the COVID-19 pandemic came along. The business still does, says CEO Tim Hale, though an increasing number of staff are returning to the office — not because of a policy change but “because many people are re-discovering they enjoy the camaraderie and team learning of an office environment.”
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Office Optional - The Evolving Workspace
The heads of Florida's Best Companies have mixed feelings about hybrid work arrangements, but most would agree the trend is here to stay.
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Saving Sea Cows
Brevard County has been at the center of a historic wave of manatee deaths in recent years: More than one-third of the 1,900 sea cows that died in Florida between 2021 and 2022 were recovered in Brevard County, where algae blooms in the Indian River Lagoon have decimated the seagrass that the mammals rely on for food.
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Key Milestone
Two hundred years ago this month, the Florida Territorial Legislature created Monroe County — which contains all but one of the Florida Keys — as Florida's sixth county. Five years later, Key West was incorporated as a city and became the county seat. The Florida Keys include 1,700 islands stretching over 220 miles. The Calusa and Tequesta tribes were the original inhabitants of the islands.
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Age-Friendly Care
AdventHealth is growing its primary care program geared toward the 65-and older set. First launched in 2021 in Daytona Beach, the AdventHealth Well 65+ program offers patients everything from longer appointments — up to 60 minutes instead of the typical 15 minutes — to on-site lab work, same-day and next-day appointments, video visits and the ability to reach a team member by phone or online, seven days a week.
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Faster 3-D Fabrication
Ali Tamijani, an aerospace engineering professor at Embry-Riddle University, has spent the past decade and a half working on design and simulation technologies for 3-D printing, a process the aerospace and aviation industries have embraced to create prototypes and parts for planes and spacecraft.
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Engineering a Solution to Cancer
Over the course of his career as a mechanical engineer, Greg Sawyer relished working on what he thought were “the hardest problems” in engineering — controlling surfaces to make things work in challenging environments, such as space.
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Giving Her Income a Pop
Surveys suggest that more than half of Millennials have a side gig. Chauniqua Major, a 34-year-old public relations professional who goes by “Major,” says many of her contemporaries simply can't make ends meet without one.
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Brewed with Purpose
Ben Hoyer, 42, Owner, Downtown Credo coffee shop; Credo Conduit co-working space promoter; COO, Rally social enterprise accelerator, Orlando
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