Amanda is a passionate sustainability leader and social entrepreneur.
Amanda is the 2009 joint Young Environmentalist of the year after co-founding two environmental advocacy organisations, the Australian Climate Change Education Network (ASCENT) and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) at the age of just 23.
Amanda served as National Director of the AYCC for three and a half years (two of those with co-founder Anna Rose ). The AYCC has grown into one of the nation’s largest and most successful youth run organisations with 58,000 individual members and 25 organisational members.
Amanda has led three Australian youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and participated as a Youth Advisor to the Australian Government’s delegation in 2007. Amanda has been part of building the global youth climate movement helping to organise the Conference of Youth at the UN Climate Conference in 2007 and 2008. Her international work has also extended to her selection as a key spokesperson for Greenpeace International’s Voices of Change campaign in 2009 which reached 180 million people.
Amanda graduated from a Bachelor of Laws with honours from Monash University in 2007 after completing an Arts degree from Melbourne University in 2004. Her honours thesis, which was granted a High Distinction, considered the integration of an Australian emissions trading scheme into the global carbon market.
