Amy Parish is a biological anthropologist, primatologist, and Darwinian feminist. She has taught at the University of Southern California in the Gender Studies and Anthropology departments since 1999. She is recognized as being a world-leading expert in bonobo studies.
Parish completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in 1989. She received her Masters of Science from the University of California-Davis in 1990, where she completed her PhD. Her dissertation focused on sociosexual behavior and the female-female relationships of bonobos, under the supervision of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.