Amanda co-leads Namati’s Strategic Engagement team, maximizing impact with key audiences by developing meaningful, clear strategies and producing assets and experiences that advance the global movement for grassroots justice.
She partners with Namati’s leadership and teams, including the Grassroots Justice Network, on high-priority initiatives and partnerships, engagement strategy, brand and content management, team building, campaigns and impact filmmaking. In direct support of Namati’s organizational strategy, she spearheads the development of creative assets, messaging and experiences that resonate with key stakeholders including governments, funders, corporations, media, local communities, and Network members.
Some of the films that she’s co-directed and produced have been screened at the Smithsonian’s Museum of African Art, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the DC Environmental Film Festival, the Harlem Film Festival hosted by the New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy and in Oxford during the Skoll World Forum. In 2023, she spoke at the Women’s Environmental Leadership Summit hosted by the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Museum about impact filmmaking.
Over the course of her career, Amanda has developed and executed measurable partnership and engagement strategies to drive land, environmental and climate justice, citizenship justice, health justice, the eradication of modern day slavery and dignity for the homeless. While at Humanity United, she was on a team that worked with US government agencies and foundations to launch the Partnership for Freedom, announced by President Obama in 2012.
Amanda was a long-time board member of Article3.org and formerly served on the advisory council at the Women’s Community Clinic in San Francisco.