Amanda Little

Amanda Little is our Founder and Director. She is a journalism professor at Vanderbilt University and is the author of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. Amanda is an op-ed contributor for Bloomberg and has written for Rolling Stone, Wired, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her recent TED talk has 1.5+ million views. She has appeared on media outlets including NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and CNN with Fareed Zakaria. Amanda dreamed up Kidizenship with the help of her kids, Aria and Nico, ages 12 and 9, and her friend, Alice Randall.