Amanda Thiel is an environmental social scientist, cultural anthropologist, and ethnobotanist whose research explores relationships among communities, landscapes, and environmental change across the Americas. Her work focuses on local and Indigenous knowledge, food systems and sovereignty, ethnobotany, and community resilience in the face of disasters. She has extensive experience conducting collaborative research with diverse communities in the U.S. and Mesoamerica. Within the Ecosystem Workforce Program, she currently contributes to the Grow Back Better project focused on community wildfire recovery and resilience in the Pacific Northwest.
PhD, Washington State University, Cultural Anthropology (2023)
MA, Washington State University, Cultural Anthropology (2017)
BA, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, Herbal Medicine (2008)