Amanda Collings Vann, M.Ed.
Health Educator
Amanda has worked at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1998. She holds a B.A. in English from UMass Amherst and a master’s degree in Community and University-based Health Education from Pennsylvania State University. She has worked at several universities in her 15-year career, in the areas of sexual health and violence against women. Her areas of specialty are sexuality and women’s health education.
A former Not Ready for Bedtime Player, Amanda now directs the award-winning sex education theatre troupe. She is a Peer Health Education instructor, serves on the Five College Sexual Assault Prevention and Intervention Committee and the Five College AIDS Committee, and is an adjunct lecturer with the School of Public Health and Health Sciences.
Amanda was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to serve as a statewide representative on the Governor's Council on Sexual and Domestic Violence. She serves on the Western Massachusetts Development Committee of Planned Parenthood, is a former board member of the New England Learning Center for Women in Transition, has volunteered as a Massachusetts foster care reviewer, is a certified Rape Aggression Defense instructor and a rape crisis and domestic violence volunteer. Amanda is committed to ending cycles of violence in society, and to providing accurate information that empowers students to make decisions about their sexual health.
Amanda enjoys spending time with her daughters, Gracie and Abby, and her husband Mike. She is a doula, and likes fly fishing, reading, birding and cooking.
