After serving as a consultant to the board’s Site Planning committee for two years, Amanda joined the MSGH administrative team as the Director of Communications & Marketing in 2010. She also leads the school’s site-planning efforts as we prepare to move to a new location and serves as the staff liaison to the MSGH Family Association.
Drawn to special-project work, Amanda began working in the anthropological field prior to graduating from college. She was a member of a research team that studied the Greensboro Buddhist Resettlement Community and conducted oral histories of survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime. The team prepared a cultural study of the community, interviewed key constituencies in the greater Greensboro area, and facilitated communication among community groups to enable them to work together with fewer obstructions—particularly as they related to health, legal and educational services. After graduation, she served the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Boston, where she was a project manager charged with implementing a national fundraising event that occurred simultaneously in six sites throughout three states in one weekend. Her chapter earned a #1 ranking in the country during each of her years at the Society, and she was selected to present to national leadership on best practices for that event and others she piloted during her time at the Society. After completing graduate school, Amanda enjoyed her role as a teacher of English and world history at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA, before moving to Connecticut, where she taught English and served as the Director of Community Service for the Kingswood-Oxford Middle School.
Amanda earned her M. Ed from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and her BA in International Relations from Elon University in North Carolina. As a freelance writer, her work has appeared in local and national publications.
Locally, she has served the Bridge Family Center as a board member, chaired their board’s development committee, and continues to support the organization as a volunteer. In her spare time, she enjoys organic gardening, photography, the arts, running, community service and relaxing with her husband and two children, both of whom attend MSGH.
