Editing Amy Ray (section)

==Side projects==
[[File:Kaia Wilson and Amy Ray on stage at The Saint sms.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Kaia Wilson]] and Ray on stage in 2012]]
In addition to the Indigo Girls<ref name="outdoors">{{cite news |title=Where the Outdoors Are Humming With Melodies and Messages |last=Caramanica |first=Jon |date=June 17, 2009 |work=New York Times}}</ref><ref name="carson">{{cite book |author=Mina Carson |author2=Tisa Lewis |author3=Susan M. Shaw |title=Girls rock!: fifty years of women making music |year=2004 |publisher=UP of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-2310-3 |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cEDqNRkk6KIC&pg=PA144}}</ref> and her work as a solo artist, Ray also runs an independent record label, Daemon Records, which she founded in 1990 and which is based in Decatur, Georgia.<ref name="carson" /> Some performers signed to Daemon include [[Girlyman]], [[Magnapop]], Nineteen Forty-Five, [[Michelle Malone]], Three Finger Cowboy, [[Danielle Howle]] and the Tantrums, Gerard McHugh, [[New Mongrels]], Grady Cousins, The Oblivious, [[Snow Machine (band)|Snow Machine]], [[Utah Phillips]] and [[Rose Polenzani]].

She often collaborates with [[The Butchies]], a punk band featuring drummer [[Melissa York]] and vocalist/guitarist [[Kaia Wilson]]. She has contributed the live track "Lucy Stoners" on ''[[Calling All Kings & Queens]]'' (2001) and the [[Mr. Lady Records]] sampler album as well as a live recording of "On Your Honor" on a compilation for [[Home Alive]].

Ray is also an activist involved in multiple political and social causes, including [[gay rights]], [[low-power broadcasting]], [[women's rights]], [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous struggles]], [[Gun politics in the United States|gun control]], [[Environmentalism|environmental protection]] and the anti-death penalty movement among others. She has made several trips to [[Chiapas]], Mexico to support the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]].

In 1993, she and Emily Saliers co-founded [[Honor the Earth]] with [[Winona LaDuke]]. Honor the Earth's mission is "to create awareness and support for Native [American] environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native [American] communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard."<ref name="name">{{cite web |url=http://www.honorearth.org/about-us |title=Campaigns |publisher=Honor the Earth |access-date=January 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006123014/http://www.honorearth.org/about-us |archive-date=October 6, 2013}}</ref>

[[Justin Vernon]] ([[Bon Iver]]) appears on her 2014 album ''[[Goodnight Tender]]'', and she and Vernon continue to maintain a friendship.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.cigarcitymanagement.com/podcast/2017/3/6/episode-22-amy-ray-indigo-girls |title=Episode 22 – Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) |work=Cigar City Management |access-date=March 29, 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Ray was also a judge for the 3rd<ref>[http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/imajudges2004.asp "3rd Annual IMA Judges"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112142917/http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/imajudges2004.asp |date=November 12, 2015 }}. Independent Music Awards. Retrieved on September 4, 2013.</ref> and 11th Annual<ref>[http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima/judges/11th-annual-ima-judges/ "11th Annual IMA Judges]. Independent Music Awards. Retrieved on September 4, 2013.</ref> Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.