Amanda Fuchs Miller has 30 years of advocacy, policy, research and communications experience inside and outside of government.

Executive Branch Experience:  Amanda served in the Biden-Harris Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs, where she oversaw more than $3.6 billion in annual grants to higher education institutions and worked with colleges and universities to provide a range of policy supports.  She also served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Innovation, where she worked on the Department’s regulatory agenda and accreditation processes.   

Amanda previously served in the Obama-Biden Administration as a political appointee at the Department of Justice - in the Office of Legal Policy coordinating vetting for judicial nominees, and then as Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division, working on policy and intergovernmental affairs. Prior to that, she worked on the Obama-Biden Transition on the confirmation teams for the Attorney General and the Department of Justice’s sub-cabinet appointees.  She worked in President Clinton’s White House in the Office of Presidential Personnel, vetting cabinet and subcabinet appointees.

Hill Experience:  Amanda served as General Counsel for Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), Legislative Director for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Policy Director for Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Investigative Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee Minority Staff, working on judicial nominations.

Advocacy Experience:  As Vice President of Government Affairs at Teach For America, Amanda served as the organization’s chief federal lobbyist while working with regions to move state policy forward.  After graduating from law school, she worked in the legislative affairs group of the Washington D.C. law firm Piper Rudnick. As a consultant, Amanda has worked with numerous organizations to help them develop and implement advocacy plans.

Political Campaign Experience:  Amanda spent more than a decade working to help Democratic candidates get elected, in the field and as a consultant.  Her campaign experience includes serving as Director of Policy and Research for Barack Obama’s and Geraldine Ferraro’s U.S. Senate races.  She conducted research and policy development for numerous House, Senate and gubernatorial campaigns and for several Democratic political organizations, such as EMILY’s List and the Democratic National Committee. She worked in Israel on the successful campaign for Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Writing Experience:  From 2004 to 2024, Amanda served as the editor of the Institute of Politics’ Campaign for President: The Managers Look. She was the researcher for former Clinton speechwriter Michael Waldman’s book, My Fellow Americans, and was a contributing writer for the Gender on the Ballot blog, a partnership between the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and American University’s Women and Politics Institute.

Teaching Experience:  Amanda was an adjunct faculty member at American University at the School of Public Affairs, teaching advocacy and policy courses. She taught education policy courses at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware and at the School of Education at American University, and served as an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she taught Legislation Law and Advocacy.   Amanda has served as a guest lecturer at West Point and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  She was the faculty recipient of the 2017-18 Alice Paul award from the Women & Politics Institute at American University.

Education:  Amanda graduated with a joint degree from Northwestern University School of Law (J.D.) and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (M.P.A.).  She has her B.A./B.S. from Boston University in Political Science and Journalism.