Amanda is a multi-award-winning journalist focusing on science, psychology, child development, critical thinking, and history. A features journalist for more than 20 years, she is known for her in-depth, evidence-based reporting, her keen interest in exploring complex (often controversial) topics, and her multidisciplinary, global perspective. She is the columnist behind BBC.com's "How Not To Be Manipulated", which offers smart, thoughtful ways to navigate misinformation, online and off.

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Over her career, she has reported, written and presented features and documentaries from as far afield as Guatemala, Tajikistan and China for the BBC, Netflix, History Channel, New Scientist, Scientific American, and many more. These include a half-hour documentary on Maya ruins called Guatemala's Lost World, which won silver in the 2021 Lowell Thomas SATW awards; a written feature on Guatemala's ruins which won gold in the same awards; and a long-form story on Miami's fight against sea level rise, which won the 2019 Journalist Award from the European Meteorological Society. 

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Today, her investigative, in-depth articles on parenting are especially popular. Her BBC stories on the myths of healthy baby sleep and sleep training have been read more than three million times by readers around the globe, while her story on male postnatal depression was a 2023 winner in the Association of British Science Writers awards.

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Previously a senior journalist at the BBC, she was the editor of BBC Future (bbc.com/future), a multi-award-winning BBC.com website devoted to in-depth, evidence-based features.

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A graduate of Yale (B.A., history) and Cambridge (M.Phil, international relations), she has lived in the US, Italy, and the UK, and now resides in Switzerland.