Amanda Congdon
Amanda Congdon Bio
Amanda is the Executive Producer of The Sometimesdaily Channel. As a mobile TV producer, on-camera personality, videoblogger, and new media pioneer she has created and co-created many different video projects, including AC on ABC on ABCNews.com, Amanda Across America, Rocketboom, and Starring Amanda Congdon. Amanda incorporates news, man-on-the-street interviews, sketch comedy, performance art and road-tripping into the media she produces. Throughout her journeys, she has interviewed literally thousands of people from celebrities such as Will Smith, Diddy, Gene Simmons and Ludacris, to senior political and media figures such as Dan Rather, Mike Huckabee and Tom Vilsack. But Amanda's favorite people to chat with on camera are the everyday folks she meets on the street.
Thanks to a partnership with FLO TV, in October 2009 Amanda left all of her earthly possessions in a California storage unit and took Sometimesdaily on the road. She zigzagged across the country interviewing interesting people and visiting places of cultural significance – all with the camera rolling. Perhaps spoiled during her time in Los Angeles, Amanda was dismayed to oftentimes find zero organic food options in many of the places she visited. She decided her next video project needed to center around healthy eating-- oh, and she wanted to feed the people who watched her videos too! As luck would have it, she knew a great chef, her husband, Mario Librandi. In April 2011 the two opened Vegan Mario's at The Organic Kitchen in Santa Barbara. They'll soon be launching a new weekly show, Rawkin' it Raw, on the Sometimesdaily Channel. They begin shipping healthy organic food nationwide this summer.
Born and raised in New York City, Amanda graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University with an undergraduate degree in Organizational Communications and a minor in English Literature. She is the current Vice-President and Communications Chair of the Northwestern Alumni Association of Los Angeles.
Amanda's career has been documented in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, The CBS Evening News, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Hollywood Reporter, WIRED, Paper Magazine, Interview Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and on countless blogs. She has appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as herself and has written for WIRED, PopularScience.com and SXSW Magazine.