Amanda Litman Author

Amanda Litman is the cofounder and executive director of Run for Something, which recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for local office. Since 2017, they’ve identified nearly 150,000 young people across the country who want to lead and helped elect nearly a million millennials and zoomers across almost all fifty states. Before launching Run for Something, Amanda worked on several campaigns, including Hillary for America in 2016, Charlie Crist for governor in 2014, and Obama for America in 2012. Amanda has been named one of Politico’s 50 Ideas Driving Politics in 2018, Bloomberg’s People to Watch in 2019, Fortune’s 40 Under 40 in 2020, TIME’s 100 Next Rising Stars of 2022, and one of the Emerson Collective’s Dial Fellows in 2022. Amanda has written for outlets like ELLE, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, Teen Vogue, CNN.com, Vanity Fair, O Magazine, Crooked Media, and more. She graduated from Northwestern University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.