Amanda Congdon is the President of Oxmour Entertainment. She is a videoblogger, writer, actress and producer. She has created and co-created many different web video projects including AC on ABC, Amanda Across America, Rocketboom, and Starring Amanda Congdon. Amanda likes to incorporate news, sketch comedy, performance art, and dynamic backgrounds into the videos she produces. She has interviewed hundreds of people, from John & Elizabeth Edwards to Ludacris, from Mike Huckabee to George Soros. 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. Her 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. Amanda has appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as herself and has written for WIRED and SXSW Magazine. She is currently in pre-production for a new daily web video venture.
To learn more about Amanda, read her wikipedia entry. In her free time Amanda enjoys skiing, hiking, traveling and talking about herself in the third person.
To get to know Amanda personally, check out her Myspace or follow her exploits on Twitter.
Disclosures: Amanda has “shilled” for (the very worthy) American Express Members Project and (the very innovative) Science Stories by DuPont.