She is currently executive director of the Texas Fair Defense Project. She was a fellow for two years at the Quattrone Center at Penn law school and before that was a a postdoctoral fellow with the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin. Amanda served as Policy Director of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence during the 84th legislative session. She is the creator of the Texas Justice Initiative, a research website compiling and analyzing data on deaths in custody and police shootings in Texas. Prior to her policy work, Amanda was a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and served as briefing attorney to the Honorable Judge Cheryl Johnson of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Amanda received her law degree with honors from The University of Texas School of Law and her B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.