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Amy Purdy Keynote Speaker

Inspirational Paralympic Snowboarder
NY Times Bestselling Author of ‘On My Own Two Feet’
Dancing with the Stars Competitor

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Amy Purdy's Biography

Amy Purdy has defied the odds throughout her life to accomplish some extraordinary things. She grew up with a passion for snowboarding and travel, and despite fighting for her life and losing both of her legs below the knees to Bacterial Meningitis at the age of 19 her passion for life carried her not only to the upper echelons of athletics but onto the dance floor of Hollywood and well, well beyond.

Amy is professional snowboarder and a three-time Paralympic medalist, making her the most decorated Paralympic snowboarder in US history. She is a NY Times best-selling author and a highly requested international motivational speaker and has toured with none other than Oprah Winfrey to packed arenas across the country. Amy was the subject of a critically acclaimed Super Bowl commercial, she very nearly won (was the runner-up) on the ABC hit show Dancing with the Stars with

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Amy Purdy

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3x Paralympic Medalist & Co-Founder of Adaptive Action Sports
NY Times Best-Selling Author of On My Own Two Feet
Competed on Dancing with the Stars & The Amazing Race
A testament to the resilience of the human spirit

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Amy Purdy began snowboardingat age 15, but in 1999, she contracted bacterial meningitis at the age of 19 and had less than a two percent chance of living. She was able to survive the infection, but lost both of her legs below the knee and would later require a kidney from her father the week before her 21st birthday...Co-founded Adaptive Action Sports in 2005, a non-profit organization and branch of Disabled Sports USA that is dedicated to introducing people with physical challenges to action sports...Instrumental in advocating for the inclusion of adaptive Snowboarding to the 2014 Paralympic Games...Works as a motivational speaker, model and actress...Spokesperson for the Challenged Athletes Foundation, an organization that provides grants for training, competition and equipment for athletes with disabilities...Featured in a Madonna music video and a photo shoot with Nikki Sixx, and she made her film debut in What’s Buggin’ Seth, a movie by Eli Steele, in 2005...Competed on Dancing With the Stars...Contestant on the 21st season of The Amazing Race with partn