Amanda is the Director of Academic Programs for the Irving Institute for Energy and Society and Director of Dartmouth's Master of Energy Transition. She leads the Institute's energy transition education pillar and partners with students, faculty, staff, and alumni to inspire and equip students from all disciplines to advance more just and sustainable energy futures. Prior to Dartmouth, Amanda served as Executive Director of MIT's Environmental Solutions Initiative and Education Director for the MIT Energy Initiative. At MIT, she led the development of multidisciplinary curricula and co-curricula in energy, environment, and sustainability, and established the first five-school undergraduate minor (Energy Studies). Amanda published the first energy justice course on Coursera and was a founding member of the Committee on Energy, Equity, and Justice of the University Energy Institute Leadership Collaborative.

Amanda's PhD (environmental communication) and MS (forestry social sciences) are both from the University of Washington. She is a Williams College alum, deeply committed to the liberal arts and to learning by doing, and inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's observation that "the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other."