Amanda Schwartz, MS LPP ’11

Partnerships Manager, Partners in Health

Amanda was recently promoted to Partnerships Manager, working with partner organizations who can help Partners in Health to further their mission to break the cycle of poverty and disease. Partners In Health is a Boston-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality medical care and social justice to the destitute sick living in some of the world’s poorest places. Prior to her promotion, Amanda worked in development for PIH.

In 2008, Amanda founded One Youth International, a small non-profit that supports grassroots community-based initiatives abroad. She also worked for nine months in Kenya at the Mtongwe Community Initiative, a community health organization located in Mombasa, Kenya that provides home-based care for HIV and TB patients, umbrella support for microfinance projects, and peer education programming for youth.