Biography

Amanda is an independent Brazilian journalist and photographer, a Pulitzer Center Rainforest grantee and OptOut News Climate Editor. Her work is mostly focused on climate justice, migration and socio environmental issues. Upon finishing her masters in Journalism, Media and Globalization at Charles University, she moved back to Brazil to tell the stories that really matter to me. In 2023, she was awarded Climate Tracker’s Climate Justice Fellowship to cover COP 28 and in 2022, she wrote the winning piece of the Training on Constructive Narrative Framing by the International Service for Human Rights. Her work is featured on Mongabay, The New Humanitarian, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, among others.