Amanda Edwards

After graduating from the University of Nevada, Reno's BS/MS biotechnology program in 2011, Amanda's industry career started in Synthetic Genomics' algal biology strain development team. Living in San Diego was fun for a kid who grew up in rural Nevada, but her love of family, mountains, & forests brought her to Northern California where her focus evolved to encompass plant protoplast culture and genome editing in fruit and vegetable crops. While Amanda used to think the best kind of chocolate was chocolate dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with more chocolate, she's excited to be part of a problem-solving team tackling the ethics and sustainability of the chocolate industry.