Amanda graduated nursing school in 2002 from Northwest Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi. Amanda worked in an Intensive Care Unit for 11 years and in 2012 she joined Gastro One as a Clinical Research Coordinator. Amanda received her Masters of Science in Nursing and Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner degrees from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi in 2016. While receiving her education she was awarded the Daniel Hale Williams Research Scholarship.

Amanda is a member of the Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners and the Association of Clinical Research Professionals. She is also a certified Clinical Research Coordinator.