Hall, Amanda F.

Amanda F. Hall

Amanda F. Hall

Member-at-Large and Awards Committee Chair

Executive Director, Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, Western Carolina University

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Amanda F. Hall

Amanda Hall is the Executive Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning at Western Carolina University. A community-engaged educator and advocate for almost 20 years, Dr. Hall has served as an outreach educator for Virgina State Parks and the Science Museum of Virginia, a middle school science educator, and the founder of the FMS School Garden & Market and the FMS Do Something Club, before becoming a faculty member and scholar administrator of community and civic engagement in higher education. She has chaired the Service-Learning and Experiential Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and co-hosted the Experiential Commons podcast. Her academic and community interests include community-based participatory action research; community cultural wealth and youth action research; photovoice as a pedagogical and research tool; reflection as assessment; asset-based community development; building student professional and civic competencies through community engaged teaching, learning, and research; and faculty and youth development for community-engaged practice and scholarship.