Amanda Lynch

Amanda H. Lynch is an environmental and social scientist, and the Director of the Brown Institute of Environment and Society and Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown University.

Quotes

• "Nearly twenty years ago, I began as a classroom teacher in Richmond, VA. Many of my students struggled due to community and domestic violence."
• "The communities that I serve are plagued by violence and substance abuse. A few years into my career, my best friend, Angel Jackson and her father Herbert Levi Sharpe, Sr. were murdered. This changed the trajectory of my entire career and I began to focus more on mental health and mindfulness in the black community. "
• "I am passionate about connecting children of color to yoga and mindfulness and in building healthy communities by disrupting historical trauma and poverty."
• "I loved theater and writing short stories as a child. I was always a creative and energetic child."
  • Meet Amanda Lynch of Rethinking Resiliency in Southwest. JUNE 18, 2020, Voyage ATL. Retrieved: 19 November, 2023.
• “This double marginalization of pregnant patients limits their autonomy and unduly exposes them to the criminal-legal system. Given disparities in prenatal drug screening, Black pregnant patients are at greater risk of such double-jeopardy.”
  • Pregnant Women Are Subjected to Inaccurate, Non-consensual Drug Testing Leading to Separation from Their Newborns. ANNA LYNCH, August 16, 2023, at 7:39 pm. Woman Advance, Retrieved: 19 November, 2023.