Amanda is a journalist and writer who has worked for more than a decade at the Spanish newspaper El Mundo where she has achieved many successes. She is truly passionate about interfaith and intercultural dialogue and has worked with the Spanish association, Foro Abraham, for more than five years. Amanda was also a Fellow of the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), where she has remained an active member of the fellowship community and has previously been selected as a local project manager. In addition to her professional work as a journalist, she collaborates with associations, participating in events, and being active on social media – where collectively she has more than 13,000 followers – in order to foster dialogue, build bridges between different people and to fight against Islamophobia and hate speech. In 2018 she launched her book ‘Por qué el islam: mi vida como mujer, europea y musulmana’ (Why Islam: my life as a woman, European and Muslim).