Amanda is passionate about social change and ending mass incarceration. This includes efforts to expand quality programming and educational opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. As Director of Community Partnerships, she cultivates external partnerships with community-based organizations that offer trauma-informed programming in prisons and re-entry, colleges, and universities. Amanda has worked with Insight Garden Program since 2015 and has served in various roles supporting our work in prisons across CA and developing our wrap-around re-entry program.

Amanda is a certified professional coach. She has an extensive background in progressive philanthropy and transformational leadership development through her work with the Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing, the Women Donors’ Network, Rockwood Leadership Institute, and Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER).

Amanda was a past facilitator in training with the Victim Offender Education Group at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, CA. She is the co-founder of Coaching for Healing and Non-Violence at California State Prison, Los Angeles, and serves as an advisor to UnCommon Law.