ABOUT
AMANDA
GLYNN
MISSION & HISTORY.
Founder and Principal Amanda Sonis Glynn lives her life with purpose and thrives on helping others do the same.
Built on the foundation of a career dedicated to advancing the public interest, Amanda Glynn Consulting offers career services and strategy consulting for mission-driven individuals and organizations alike.
Amanda’s decades-long professional journey weaved through a variety of leadership roles within and in partnership with nonprofit organizations, academic institutions and public service-focused associations.
Most recently, Amanda spent 12 years as a Career Advisor and Coach for established leaders and emerging professionals seeking positions in mission-driven organizations – first with Commongood Careers and then Koya Leadership Partners.
Before venturing into career coaching, Amanda taught Sociology of Law and Future Philanthropists at Tufts University, co-wrote a Jewish philanthropy curriculum at the Tufts University Hillel, developed a post-graduate public interest fellowship at Harvard College, and advised students through Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising. As an outside consultant, Amanda co-led in-depth administrative program reviews of public interest programming at academic institutions and developed infrastructure and program recommendations.
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For five years, Amanda co-managed Phillips Brooks House, a department at Harvard College housing public interest programming. Amanda served as the Coordinator of the Center for Public Interest Careers (CPIC) at Harvard College, overseeing and developing multiple public interest internship and fellowships programs, providing personal and professional development opportunities for students and alumni/ae, and partnering with nonprofit organizations around the country. As Director of the Harvard Public Service Network, Amanda provided guidance and support to more than 50 student-led public service programs operating locally, nationally, and globally. Amanda also served as the Sexual Harassment Hearing Officer for Harvard College.
Amanda served as a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Medical-Legal Partnership (formerly called the Family Advocacy Program) at Boston Medical Center, focusing on the civil legal needs of patients in the hospital’s Adolescent Center.
Co-Founder of Wayland Community for Social Justice, Amanda has served on a number of nonprofit boards and volunteer committees, including Temple Shir Tikva’s Board of Trustees and Combined Jewish Philanthropies’ MetroWest Community Planning Committee.
Amanda received a B.A. in Sociology from Tufts University, graduating summa cum laude, and earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives outside Boston with her husband and four sons.