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AMANDA SWITZER
Co-Founder & Executive Director (CHICAGO, ILLINOIS)
Amanda Switzer, co-founder and Executive Director of the Kukhoma Project, has over a decade of experience working within the education system in Dallas, Texas and Lusaka, Zambia in various leadership roles. Amanda was born and raised in Chicago and has received a master’s level of education in Instructional Technology and Computing and Education from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University.
For the first 7 years of Amanda’s career, she served as a classroom educator at Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas. Amanda felt passionate about impacting and equipping her students beyond the classroom and was actively involved in student ministries on campus. Through a series of events, in 2014, Amanda felt called by God to move overseas to impact students and communities in Lusaka, Zambia. For the following 4 years, Amanda worked tirelessly and passionately in her various capacities of leadership at Family Legacy, including but not limited to: on-boarding the secondary education program, overseeing procurement of 15,000 students and the operations of 25 schools, leading the “Student Life” program as program manager, and serving as co-program manager over all schools.
Through Amanda’s opportunities in various leadership roles in Zambia, the Lord shined a light in 2017 on a weaker vessel in Zambia’s culture and education system: protection and support for teens impregnated by sexual abuse. The Lord clearly called Amanda and colleague Elizabeth to meet this need in a powerful way, and the Kukhoma Project vision became a reality in 2018.
Amanda now resides in Chicago where she is fully devoted to building a strong infrastructure for The Kukhoma Project.
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