Amanda serves the San Luis Valley since graduating from law school in 1987. Over the course of time she saw good people with good ideas, struggling to get the outcomes they wanted for the community. In 2010 she entered a Master’s leadership program to find different ways to approach these struggles. Now she is pursuing a doctoral program in organization change and performance. She has been a part of collaborative efforts around eviction process and broadband. She joined the Civic Canopy Board in her effort to continue to find solutions to “good people struggles”.