Amanda Fitzpatrick is an award winning journalist and news manager with 18 years of experience in television news, and most recently as a communications manager as the Public Information Officer and Communications Manager for the City of Durham, Police Department. She graduated from Kennesaw State University with a BS degree in communication and was VP of the Pi Phi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and President of the NAACP student chapter. Before working in Dallas at NBC5, she was a reporter at the ABC station in her hometown of Raleigh-Durham, NC. and during her career she also enjoyed stints at WALB, WCSC, Disney ABC, WTVD, WWAY, WCCB, CW33, WFAA. A wife and mother and active member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Amanda enjoys speaking to students and mentoring young journalists. And people love her!
