Amanda Miller

Secretary

Amanda spent much 2009-2012 living, volunteering and working in Cape Town, South Africa. Following her 2009 graduation from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Amanda was accepted to an internship program at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. After four months working in the township of Gugulethu at a Pediatric HIV Clinic, she knew she had found her calling: to reduce disparities in access to healthcare and education.  Amanda spent the next three years moving back and forth between California and Cape Town. During this time, she held positions at the University of Cape Town, the South African Red Cross Society, Sonke Gender Justice Network and The Southern Africa Sustainable Development Initiative (SASDI).
 
In September of 2011, Amanda earned her MS in Global Health Sciences from the University of California at San Francisco. Over the next six years she worked in the field of global health at the University of California, San Francisco and RTI International’s Women’s Global Health Imperative. In summer of 2017, she and her husband relocated to San Diego so she could begin a PhD program in Public Health at the University of California, San Diego.  Amanda’s dissertation work will look at how alcohol use and experiences of intimate partner violence influence engagement and retention in HIV care and treatment and HIV disease progression in Uganda.
 
Amanda has been a member of Love to Langa’s Board of Directors since its inception in 2014. She deeply believes in Love to Langa’s mission to empower people living in underserved communities in South Africa’s townships through increased access to educational and training opportunities and she is grateful for the opportunity to be involved in such important work.