Amy Ralston Povah is an American prisoner advocate and the founder of the CAN-DO Foundation.
[1] Povah (then Amy Pofahl) served nine years of a 24-year sentence for conspiracy in an MDMA trafficking case.
After several media pieces covering her sentence including a Glamour magazine story by David France,[2] her sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton on July 7, 2000.
[9][10] As of August 2020, she has helped more than 100 prisoners receive clemency from the federal government.
The 1998 book Shattered Lives: Portraits from America’s Drug War featured her.