Aimee's most recent film project is the upcoming Into the Woods, scheduled for theatrical release in 2010.

Her film debut was a starring role in the highly-acclaimed film by contemporary artist Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3, first presented in the US at the Guggenheim Museum in 2003. Cremaster 3 is "an astonishing work of creativity," and was lauded by The Guardian as "the first truly great piece of cinema to be made in a fine art context since Dali and Bunuel filmed Un Chien Andalou in 1929. It is one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema."

Aimee first received worldwide media attention as an athlete. Born without fibulae in both legs, Aimee's medical prognosis was bleak; she would never walk and indeed would spend the rest of her life using a wheelchair. In an attempt for an outside chance at independent mobility, doctors amputated both her legs below the knee on her first birthday. The decision paid off. By age two, she had learned to walk on prosthetic legs, and spent her childhood doing the usual athletic activities of her peers: swimming, biking, softball, soccer, and skiing, always alongside "able-bodied" kids.

After graduating high school with honors, Aimee was one of three students in the US chosen for a full academic scholarship from the Department of Defense, and at age 17 became the youngest person to hold a top-secret security clearance at the Pentagon. She worked there as an intelligence analyst during her summer breaks.

It was at this time that she rediscovered her love of competitive sports. While a dean's list student at the prestigious School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, she set her sights on making the US Team for the 1996 Atlanta Games. She enlisted the expertise of Frank Gagliano, one of the country's most respected track coaches. Through this partnership, she became the first woman with a "disability" to compete in the NCAA, doing so on Georgetown's nationally-ranked Division I track team. Outfitted with woven carbon-fiber prostheses that were modeled after the hind legs of a cheetah, she went on to set World Records in the 100 meter, the 200 meter, and the long jump, sparking a frenzy over the radical design of her prototype sprinting legs.

After a profile in Life magazine showcased her in the starting blocks at Atlanta, the world took notice. Aimee soon landed a 10-page feature in the inaugural issue of Sports Illustrated for Women, which led to her accepting numerous invitations to speak at international design conferences. Being introduced to this discourse relating to aesthetic principles, she became interested in issues relating to body image and how fashion advertising impacted standard notions of femininity and beauty. In 1999, Aimee made her runway debut in London at the invitation of one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Alexander McQueen. Walking alongside the supermodels of the world, Aimee's groundbreaking, triumphant turn captured the attention of the fashion media, propelling her onto the magazine covers of ID and Dazed and Confused. After making her mark in the fashion magazine standards of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, W, Glamour, and Elle, she was also named as one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World."

An influential voice in today's culture, she has been named as one of Esquire's "Women We Love," one of Jane magazine's "10 Gutsiest Women," one of Sports Illustrated's "Coolest Girls in Sport," and was celebrated as the "Hottest Muse" in Rolling Stone's annual Hot List.

In addition to her professional career, Aimee serves on numerous boards and spends much of her time assisting various non-profit organizations, most notably the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF). Aimee served for years as Vice-President for J.O.B., the nation's oldest non-profit employment service for persons with disabilities, founded in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt, Orin Lehman, and others. After serving as a Trustee for the WSF, founded by Billie Jean King, she was elected as the foundation's President, a position she stewarded from 2007 to 2009.

Already at a young age, Aimee's impact on modern society and her influence on future generations is undeniable. Her likeness has been immortalized in exhibits at institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the NCAA Hall of Fame, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern, the Track and Field Hall of Fame, and the Women's Museum, where she is honored for her contribution to sport among the "Greatest American Women of the 20th Century." She resides in New York City.

 
2009 - Jury Member, Taormina Film Festival w/ Laurent Cantet & Ari Folman
2009 - MIT Media Lab Guest Lecturer, New Identities Master Class
2009 - SHOWstudio Exhibit, Somerset House, London,UK
2009 - Recipient of The Gold Medal of the Italian Republic
2009 - TEDMED Conference Speaker
2009 - TED Conference Speaker
2009 - Ambassador, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival

2008 - Jury Member, Kars Film Festival, Turkey w/ Dan Fainaru, Kutlug Ataman, Fred Kelemen
2008 - School of Visual Arts (SVA) Masters Class Project
2008 - Ambassador, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival
2008 - Featured in "25 Years of Non-Uniform Thinking" campaign for Kenneth Cole
2008 - Wrote and Directed "Cut Out,"short film commissioned for SHOWstudio.com Political Fashion
2008 - President, Women's Sports Foundation

2007 - Named to Board of Annual Review of High Performance Coaching and Consulting
2007 - Actress, Into The Woods (Jennifer Elster, Independent)
2007 - MIT Media Lab H2O Speaker
2007 - President, Women's Sports Foundation

2006 - Founding Trustee of National Sports Museum, opening 2008. (Hank Aaron, Bob Cousy, Janet Evans, Rod Gilbert, Boomer Esaison)
2006 - Actress, Quid Pro Quo, (Carlos Brooks, HDNet Films Mark Cuban/Todd Wagner)
2006 - Actress, World Trade Center (Oliver Stone, Paramount)
2006 - Actress, Marvelous (Siofra Campbell, Independent)

2005 - Named to Board of Trustees, Women's Sports Foundation by Billie Jean King
2005 - Selected for book of "Fashion Icons" by Rizzoli Press

2004 - NCAA Hall of Fame Honoree
2004 - Pirelli Calendar by Nick Knight
2004 - Named to the United States Track and Field Hall of Fame, New York, NY

2003 - Collaborated on Sir Elton John's Lifeball for HIV/AIDS research
2003 - Named to Rolling Stone Magazine's annual "Hot List"
2003 - Actress in Agatha Christie's Poirot drama series (A&E/Granada), David Suchet, Toby Stephens, Aidan Gillen
2003 - Star of Matthew Barney's film entitled "Cremaster 3" presented by the Guggenheim Museum and Palm Pictures

2001 - Included in Smithsonian Museum presentation of "Gameface: What Does A Female Athlete Look Like?"
2001 - Named as one of Sports Illustrated's "Coolest Girls In Sports"
2001 - Named to Board of Trustees, Vice President, for non-profit organization "Just One Break" (JOB), founded by Eleanor Roosevelt, Orin Lehman, Adm. Howard Rusk, and Bernard

2000 - Received honorary PhD, Doctor of Humane Letters, from St. John Fisher College
2000 - Included in permanent exhibit of The Women's Museum (Dallas, TX) as one of the "Greatest American Women of the 20th Century"
2000 - Named to Advisory Board for Oxygen-Markle Pulse by Ms. Geraldine Laybourne (CEO, Oxygen Media) and Ms. Zoe Baird (President, Markle Foundation)
2000 - Named one of the "Top 100 Irish-Americans" by Irish-America Magazine (1999, 1998 also)

1999 - Named one of "The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Magazine
1999 - Contributing writer to Harper's Bazaar Magazine, US and 12 international editions
1999 - Named one "The Year's 10 Gutsiest Women" by Jane Magazine
1999 - featured speaker at International Design Conference, Sydney, Australia

1998 - Presented with the Tiffany & Co. "Shining Star" Award for raising social awareness of diversity issues
1998 - Collaborated on award-winning interactive design project with San Diego Children's Museum to promote non-traditional thinking
1998 - featured speaker at International Design Conference, Aspen, CO
1998 - TED Conference Speaker
1998 - TEDMED Conference Speaker
1998 - Special Achievement Award, National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation
1998 - "ESPY" Finalist, Arthur Ashe Award, ESPN Awards Show
1998 - Featured in Esquire Magazine's "Women We Love" issue

1997 - "Woman of Distinction" Award Recipient, National Association of Women in Education
1997 - "Disabled Female Athlete of the Year," USA Track and Field
1997 - "Top 40 Under 40" list, Irish-Echo Magazine
1997 - Finalist for "ARETE" Awards, ESPN
1997 - Named to Disabled Sports, USA Advisory Council
1997 - Nominated to President's Council on Physical Fitness by U.S. Senator Max Cleland

1996 - Member of Georgetown University Women's Track team
1996 - First amputee athlete to compete in NCAA in US History
1996 - First bilateral below-the-knee amputee to compete on an NCAA Division I track team
1996 - World Record Holder, 100 meters
1996 - World Record Holder, Long Jump
1996 - World Record Holder, 200 meters
1996 - Olympian, competed in Paralympics, Atlanta, GA

1993 - Awarded full academic scholarship from U.S. Department of Defense

 
Corporations:

Merrill Lynch HQ
Merrill Lynch Training Facility (multiple)
Merrill Lynch Global Bank Group
Merrill Lynch Private Client Group
Pfizer, Global R&D (multiple)
Stryker Instruments (multiple)
Brookfield Properties
American Insurance Group (AIG)
Janney Montgomery Scott
Instrumentation Laboratories
Adidas Design Group
NCH Corp. (multiple)
MassMutual (multiple)
Oppenheimer Funds (multiple)
Crystal Cruise Lines
LeadDog Marketing Group
ARAMEX Leadership Retreat

Conferences:

TED Conference (multiple)
TED Conference (multiple)
YPO-WPO Global Leadership Conference
TEDMED Conference (multiple)
International Olympic Committee (IOC) "Women in Sport" Dead Sea, Jordan
USOC "Developing Amazing Leaders" Conference, Colorado Springs
NCAA Leadership Conference
United States Tennis Association (USTA)
H2.0: New Minds, New Bodies, New Identities (MIT Media Lab)
Serious Play, Pasadena Art College
Leaders of the Future Forum, Lake Como, Italy (Ambrosetti House)
Aspen Design Conference
Future Home Design Conference, Helsinki
ISDA Design Conference, Boston
Sao Paolo Design Conference, Brazil

Organizations:

United Nations
Young President's Organization (YPO)
World President's Organization (WPO)
The Annenberg Space for Photography
US Dept of Commerce
Pio Manzu Center for Research, Italy
Ontario Library Association
National Sports Museum
Women's Business Networks (numerous chapters nationwide)
The Women's Sports Foundation
Women's National Law Center
Girl Scouts
The Morristown Museum
The Guggenheim Museum
Boston Children's Museum
Edinborough Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Athens Film Festival
Cairo Film Festival
NYC 2012 Olympic Committee
Columbia/Presbyterian Hospital, NYC
Happiness House, Fingerlakes region
National Association of Women In Education
Goalition! (Business Network, Dallas, TX)
Boone Bank, MI
Leadership Training Conference, CT
East Coast Conference (NCAA)
Julie Foudy Leadership Academy
Ladies' Auxiliary Lunch, Greenwich, CT
VIA of the Lehigh Valley, PA
No Barriers Festival, Miami
The Intrepid Museum, NYC

Educational Institutions:

The Lawrenceville School, NJ
The Ross School, East Hampton, NY
The Foxcroft School, Middleburg, VA
Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, MI
Choate Academy
Pune Women's Medical College (Women's Medical College in India)
Pelham School
Penn State University
University of Connecticut
University of Indiana
Indiana State University
University of Washington
Rochester Polytechnic Institute
University of Oklahoma
Lehigh University
Butler University
St. John Fisher College
University of Missouri WIN network
Lock Haven University
Midwestern State University, TX
UC Sacramento
Kutztown University
Macomb Community College

 
This is a sampling of the themes Aimee addresses in her talks:

Innovative Thinking - changing your perspective to one of consistent discovery

Inclusive Design - human factors; the complete picture

Personal Leadership - learning to embrace change and challenge

Body Image - issues and resolutions

Leveraging Your Network - the power of collaborative change

Equity in Sports - opportunity and access for all