Amanda is a first-year graduate student of Public Diplomacy at USC. Prior to this, she worked in market research at a start-up company in Austin, Texas. She holds a B.A. in Plan II Honors (liberal arts and sciences) and a B.M. in Music Performance from the University of Texas at Austin. As a CPD Contributing Researcher, Amanda is currently assisting CPD Research Fellow, Barbora Maronkova, on the project, "From Crawling to Walking; Progress in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Diplomacy (Lessons Learned from NATO)".