Amanda has a Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development from Villanova University. She has a NCAA National Championship for Women’s Bowling, and she was a Fulbright Award Grantee in Bulgaria, 2021-2022. She has spent her career in college-access working to close the degree divide for low-income, first-generation, and historically underrepresented students. Outside the workplace she loves cooking, trying new restaurants, Jeeps, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers.