Madagascar – A Journey to the Red Island

Amanda Martin currently serves as the Director of Programming and Training with Peace Corps in Madagascar, where she has worked since 2022. She has three decades of international development experience. She holds two master’s degrees in social work and Public Health, and a certificate in peace and conflict resolution. She is a Rotary Peace Fellow. She served as the director of three non-profit organizations (focused on human rights and public health). She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Guatemala), an English teacher in China, worked for human rights organizations in Colombia and Guatemala, and created a public health college for adult refugee students from Myanmar, in a refugee camp on the Thailand/Myanmar border. Amanda worked in Bolivia for nine years as the director of a public health non-profit organization. Her hobbies include travel, hiking, cycling, writing, reading, swimming, and spending time in nature. Her passion is working with women and adolescent girls’ empowerment projects.