Amanda is a person in long-term, self-defined recovery from substances, and on a daily journey of wellness and recovery from mental health challenges. She began her path into peer support in 2016, where she worked for Promise Resource Network in the Recovery Court program, sharing her lived experience of recovery, wellness, and “successful” reentry from the carceral system with those involved in Mecklenburg County Recovery Courts. Since then, Amanda has completed her bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with dreams of using her lived experience to provide authentic and equitable legal services to disenfranchised community members as an attorney. Amanda is now the Director of Community Initiatives for Promise Resource Network, where she has hopes of not only pouring support her team of peer support specialist but also to educate others in community about the value of lived experience.