Amanda graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Honors with Distinction, from the University of Delaware with a BA in Art Conservation and Chemistry in 2018 and completed her master's at the Winterthur University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation with a specialty in paintings in 2021. While completing her undergraduate degree, she conserved pre-Roman, Nuraghic statuary on the island of Sardinia under the supervision of Roberto Nardi and treated Civil War era books and manuscripts at the Charleston Library Society. Her preprogram work at Winterthur Museum began with the documentation, conservation, and assembly of over a thousand miniatures associated with the Nancy McDaniel Dollhouse, now a feature of the museum’s annual Yuletide festivities. The following year, she began training under Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner who supervised Amanda's work on the first Tuskegee Diorama in collaboration with the Alliance of HBCU Museums and Galleries. During her graduate studies at WUDPAC and since, she has focused her research on African American paintings. To date she has conserved artworks by Charles Dawson, William Henry Johnson, Hale Woodruff, Thorton Dial, Lois Mailou Jones, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Charles White, Sam Gilliam, and others.