Amanda Hickman

Amanda Hickman is COO of MuckRock Foundation, a US non-profit that facilitates transparency, journalism, and civic participation. MuckRock helps journalists, researchers and private citizens access public records at the local, state and federal level. MuckRock is also home to DocumentCloud, a free and open source tool that newsrooms use to analyze, annotate and publish primary source documents. Amanda joined MuckRock in 2022. She was previously Managing Director and then Interim Executive Director of AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio, where she lead the organization's work on rights and fair practice. She has a long history working and teaching at the intersection of media, technology and civic participation.