Amanda is the Executive Director of Wolf Connection and began her journey with the organization as a volunteer in 2015. Prior to becoming a student of the wolves and land, Amanda earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a licensed psychologist and has been facilitating healing and empowerment experiences for over 20 years. She is the former Director of Programs at Wolf Connection, and has collaborated with the wolves and a team of incredible humans to develop and implement curriculum in the following areas: Signature 8-Session Youth Empowerment Programs, Primal Leadership for Modern Times corporate programming, the Resiliency Program for Women Veterans, and Women & Wolves public programming. Amanda is also the co-creator of Wolf Lessons for Human Lives, an immersive virtual Social and Emotional Learning platform. She is honored to share the teachings of the wolves, and to witness the liberation that occurs when humans connect with their unique primal truths as strands of a collective song, recognizing that we too have the power to howl . . . and heal . . . as one.