Amanda is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Southern California. She is both a regular contributor to The Guardian, where she writes narrative features about environmental issues and remote communities in California, and a college lecturer at San Diego State University, where she teaches journalism courses on feature writing and public affairs reporting.

Over the past decade, Amanda’s other work has been published by Outside Magazine, USA Today, PBS, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the Sunday Long Read, among many others.

Amanda has written about the lengthy aftermath of category five hurricanes in the Caribbean; the unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the U.S.; the tiny, crumbling towns that have been bought up by corporate interests in the California desert; and hundreds of other stories in between. She has worked as a staff reporter for news outlets in the Caribbean, Europe and across the United States.