September 28, 2023

Amy Keller

Florida Trend Associate Editor • akeller@floridatrend.com

Amy Keller

Amy Keller is an associate editor for Florida Trend. She writes the magazine’s monthly Tallahassee Trend column and covers a wide variety of business topics. Keller joined Florida Trend in 2005, after more than a decade covering Congress as a reporter for Roll Call newspaper. Keller’s writings have also appeared in Salon, The New Republic and the Atlanta Jewish Times. Keller graduated from The Ohio State University in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Keller has won numerous journalism awards over the years, including being part of the team that won a 2010 first place Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for general news reporting for “Medical Makeover,” which covered trends reshaping healthcare in Florida. The same year, she won a second place Green Eyeshade for investigative reporting about Florida’s role in international adoptions.

Articles by Keller:

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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Animal Alternatives
For decades, drug discovery has relied on animals for testing the safety and efficacy of potential therapeutic agents, but that process has drawbacks. There are moral dilemmas, of course, related to the potential suffering of lab animals, but ethical concerns aside, animals are often poor physiological stand-ins for humans. Studies show that roughly nine out of 10 investigational drugs proven to be safe and effective in animals ultimately fail in human trials.
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Rail Renaissance
In 2018, Brightline — the nation's first privately financed passenger rail service in nearly four decades — debuted service between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The Miami company opened stations in Aventura and Boca Raton last year and this summer will launch hourly departures between Miami and Orlando.
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Driver's Seat
Pursuing a career in transportation made sense to Michelle Maikisch, a ninth-generation Floridian who grew up in a family of engineers and farmers in Cottondale, a rural town in the Florida Panhandle. Her father was an engineer for the State Road Department, the predecessor to the Florida Department of Transportation. Other family members also worked for the transportation department. “I've just about been around transportation my entire life,” she says.
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Food Chain
Looking for ways to drive more foot traffic to a Kissimmee flea market he purchased in 2015, Nadeem Battla met with Syd Levy, who once owned Flea World in Sanford. Levy told him that people went to Flea World for the food, and they stayed for the shopping, says Battla.
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Custom-Made
Peter Quinter doesn't spend much time behind a desk. On any given day, the trade attorney might be at a port warehouse, aboard a freighter or inside a Boeing 747 helping clients deal with import or export hiccups and advocating to get their shipments back on track.
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Economic Engine
Brightline's upcoming train service to Orlando is providing an economic boost to Central Florida. The company's $100-million vehicle maintenance facility — dubbed Basecamp — will employ 100 workers, and the train carrier has partnered with Siemens USA (which manufactures its trains), railroad contractor Herzog and Valencia College to create a curriculum to train students for careers as train mechanics.
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A Clean Start
For decades, the five-acre site at the eastern edge of downtown Naples was littered with rundown metal buildings once used as warehouses and car repair shops. It was an area where street crime flourished.
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