Amanda Ray Byerly

With Us Since
2020
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Location
Asheville, North Carolina
School
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Expertise
Women's lifestyle, General wellness, Rare disease advocacy
  • Amanda loves writing about the latest health and wellness trends all the celebrities and A-listers are dabbling in. (Gwyneth Paltrow, we're looking at you.)
  • Amanda is passionate about rare disease advocacy and serves on the boards of two nonprofit organizations dedicated to advancing treatments for RDH12-related retinopathy, a disease that causes severe and progressive vision loss during childhood.
  • As the mother of two young girls, she is constantly looking for ways to help foster and instill healthy habits that will hopefully last them a lifetime.

Experience

Amanda started her writing career curating reality television recaps, before eventually expanding into all things celebrity entertainment and pop culture gossip. But when her youngest daughter was diagnosed with an ultra-rare genetic disease at only two and a half years old, Amanda found herself thrust into an all-new world with no choice but to utilize that same journalistic skillset to learn everything possible about a disease she never knew existed. Since then, she's found a way to marry those two passions together, carving out a niche for herself in the health info-tainment world. Her bylines can be found with publications such as Explore, NickiSwift, The List, Women, and HealthDigest.

Education

Amanda graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a bachelor's degree in mass communication.

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