Amanda Nkeramihigo

(she/they)

Amanda is Burundian-born, North America-residing, citizen of the world, with a mixed background in Psychology and art. In 2020, she returned to university with a desire to understand and contribute to creating a healthier society and to our collective wellbeing. She joined the then-emerging Black Students in Psychology club, and shortly thereafter co-founded and led the first Black student mentorship program at the university, a program aimed at addressing persistent racial gaps in academia and at increasing diversity within graduate programs and research. Various equity-focused projects have since developed from this work.

She is currently assisting in research with Dr. Carl James, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in the Faculty of Education at York University. Amanda’s focus on people’s right to wellbeing and expression is rooted in her own story, as a war survivor, an African immigrant, and a Black woman. Whether the setting is academia, the workplace or an art event, her mind and heart are always turned to the human condition, its ontological yearning for liberation and its capacity for love and expansion, even in the face of the many
adversities that befall us. Amanda is tri-lingual, speaking English, French and Kirundi (her native tongue). She is excited to lend her knowledge and energy to Quansah Consulting.