Amanda Friedeman

Amanda Friedeman has worked in the field of education since 2000. Amanda began their career as an Infant Studies Assistant at Erikson Institute. In 2002, they took on the role of Newsletter Layout Editor at MPD Foundation. In 2003, they became a Student Programs Intern at The Art Institute of Chicago. In 2004, they were hired as a Museum Educator at Spertus Museum. Finally, in 2010, they were appointed Associate Director of Education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, where they were later promoted to Assistant Director of Education. In this role, they designed and implemented training for more than 200 volunteer docents and developed curriculum for Law Enforcement Action and Democracy training for Chicago Police Department Recruits. Additionally, they were responsible for overseeing all programming for elementary-aged students, teachers and families, and coordinating and scheduling 57-member Speakers' Bureau of Holocaust survivors, liberators, and eyewitnesses.

Amanda Friedeman's education history includes a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art and French Minor from Princeton University, which they completed in 1999. Amanda then went on to earn a Master of Arts in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. In 2013, they were an Alfred Learner Fellow for Holocaust Education at the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.