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Amanda Smith
Content Manager
Amanda is a content manager at GetSmarter with 8 years of experience producing content on behalf of the world’s leading universities and brands.
She enjoys using her background in newsroom journalism and data science to collaborate with professors on stories that translate their expertise into compelling, helpful content for audiences. Amanda has experience writing about a variety of subject areas, from how data science and sports interact to the impact of healthcare policy on rural communities.
Areas of expertise:
- Content marketing
- Blog writing
- Data journalism
- Machine learning and NLP
- Statistics
- Data visualization
Amanda has a Master of Information and Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in natural language processing and data visualization. For her thesis project, she built a model to identify biased language in text and delete or replace it with neutral language.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of Maryland, College Park.