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'''Amy Vedder''' (born March 24,~~1951in~~1951 in [[Palatine Bridge, New York]]) is an ecologist and primatologist, known especially for her conservation work with mountain gorillas. She was the Class of 1969 valedictorian at Canajoharie High School, Canajoharie, NY, and a 1973 graduate of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA (20 miles west of Philadelphia).

Vedder worked in Africa for the Peace Corps from 1973 to 1975. In 1978 she arrived in Rwanda with her husband, William Weber, to study gorillas at Karisoke, the research station run by Dian Fossey.