GRAND ILLUSION
SKIRTING TRADITION, Women in Politics Speak to the Next Generation (The Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2004)
The Women's Leadership Project and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government have collected and edited essays from prominent women in politics to inspire young women to careers in politics. See Amato's essay entitled "Think Boldly" or "More Justice, Less Charity." Other contributors include Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Donna Brazile, Eleanor Clift, and Antonia Hernandez.
ACCESS DENIED, Freedom of Information in the Information Age (Iowa State University Press, Ames 2000)
In this book, edited by Charles N. Davis and Sigman L. Splichal, and about access to information, Amato is profiled for Nuturing Citizenship in Suburbia.
A CHILDHOOD ABDUCTED, Children Cutting Sugar Cane in The Dominican Republic (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, NY, May 1991)
Amato was a project consultant in 1990 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) to investigate and expose child labor on cane-cutting plantations. Her published 1991 report for the Lawyers Committee, “A Childhood Abducted,” helped lead to Emmy-winning coverage on Prime Time Live, Congressional hearings, and a reform decree in the Dominican Republic.