• Royce Fellowship
Amanda
Kreiss

Concentration 

Development Studies

Award Year 

1998

Amanda will help develop a high school curriculum that will challenge students to examine contemporary social issues through action. She hopes to increase students' awareness of their connections to each other and their communities - both local and global- while helping them affect communities in positive ways.

Amanda received her M.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown. As her interest in medicine deepened, Amanda enrolled in the East Asian medical program at Chicago's Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, all the while maintaining a thriving Rolfing practice. Amanda was a practicing intern at Pacific College’s onsite clinic as well as the Chicago Women's Health Center, a health collective that provides outstanding gynecological care on a sliding scale basis to the women of Chicago. During the summer of 2009, Amanda traveled to Columbia County, NY where she completed the botanical studies internship at High Falls Garden, which provided hands-on, straight-from-the-soil sense of the medicine she practices. Her strong passion for “greening” her profession guides her to make earth-friendly choices for her practice daily and also inspired her to found Inner Ecology Botanical Pharmacy & Prescription Service, which provides medicinals of exceptional quality to her patients as well as to those of eligible practitioners throughout the upper Midwest.