Amanda Fuchs

Amanda Fuchs graduated from Fordham University’s Graduate School for Social Service with her MSW, specializing in Global Service, in May 2009. She received her Bachelor’s in Social Work from Siena College in May 2008 with a minor in psychology. During her undergraduate career, Amanda had an internship at the Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center in Troy, New York, where she worked on the general and dementia units doing both individual counseling work and facilitating groups. Amanda had her first experience abroad when she spent four months in the spring of 2006 doing a study abroad program in Windhoek, Namibia. While there, she interned at Friendly Haven – Shelter for Abused Women and their Families, a domestic violence shelter where she created an aftercare group for previous shelter residents and completed three home stays with local families. She also spent time in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In the spring of 2008, she traveled to Indonesia where she visited an orphanage, school, and Banda Aceh- the site of the 2004 tsunami. Amanda has been interning with Global Potential since October 2008, and is traveling with the youth to the Dominican Republic during summer 2009.