Amanda Winters
Amanda Winters is the 2009-2010 Scholar in Residence at the Religious Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience from Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where she focused on the biopsychology of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Winters was president of the AIDS/HIV Awareness organization at Carleton that achieved free STI testing on campus and fostered sexual health in the community. She organized a week devoted to HIV awareness featuring faculty panels, films and other events. She also headed her campus student teaching organization, where she focused on chemistry.
Winters has a diverse scientific background, having worked in five laboratories, ranging from health psychology to neuroAIDS. She was previously a research assistant at the Program of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. She is currently studying political science and human rights at Columbia University as a post-baccalaureate student.
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