She received her MA in History from Rutgers-Newark. She has received a grant from the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics to continue doing conservation work at Vacone (2014). She also has received a Bergen County (NJ) Historic Preservation Award for her work in Preservation Education (2016). Amanda is an alum of the Rutgers Field School from 2012 and 2013, and she has been involved with the UST Project since then.