Amanda Clinton is the owner and principal of A.R. Clinton: Communications, Content and Strategies. She has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of media, public relations, marketing, community relations, television and film, public policy and political communications. For nearly 15 years, she oversaw external communications for the Cherokee Nation and its corporate arm, Cherokee Nation Businesses. Prior to that, she worked as a television news producer in Oklahoma and Kansas.
She created and was a producer for the first all-Native American directed and produced docuseries, “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People,” which highlights tribal culture, history, heritage and language. In 2019, she launched the Cherokee Nation Film Office, the first AFCI-accredited tribal film office in the United States.
Amanda is the winner of three Heartland Emmy Awards, and under her leadership, the Cherokee Nation has garnered more than two dozen nominations and multiple trophies. She is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in television broadcasting in 2001 and master’s degree in mass communication in 2011.
She serves on boards for the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the OSU Foundation Board of Governors, the Tulsa Press Club, Arts Alliance Tulsa and other organizations. She has previously been named one of the Tulsa World’s Women to Watch, one of the Journal Record’s Achievers Under 40 and the Tulsa Business Journal’s “Women of Distinction.”
She is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation and her passions and areas of expertise include combating issues that adversely affect Indigenous people and communities, increasing female and Indigenous representation in film and television, protecting and advancing women’s rights, fighting climate change and protecting rural communities from factory and industrial farming.
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Amanda Clinton
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Amanda Clinton
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Cherokee Nation Film Office
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Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People
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Oklahoma Hall of Fame Board of Directors
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How to (Meaningfully) Recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Hogan Assessments [October 6, 2022] -
Meet and hear Amanda Clinton
Sports Daily with Bruce and Shane [July 15, 2020] -
Union Public Schools To 'Entertain A Proposal' To Change Mascot From Offensive Term
Public Radio Tulsa [July 7, 2020] -
Ginnie Graham: Other answers to the governor's questions about race
Tulsa World [June 15, 2020] -
Cherokee Nation Film Office Amplifies Native Voice
Tulsa People [June 2019] -
The Importance of Telling Our Own Stories with Cherokee producer Amanda Clinton
Medicine for the Resistance [May 26, 2019] -
Being Cherokee is more than a DNA test and why we should not drink Oklahoma tap water.
Life, Unscripted [March 15, 2019] -
New Cherokee Nation Film Office Puts Tribe on Map as Destination for Film & Music Makers
Native Business Magazine [January 27, 2019] -
Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test
HuffPost [January 4, 2019] -
Tulsa Women's March
[January 19, 2018] -
Cherokee Confederate statues a topic of conversation again
ABC 8 Tulsa [August 18, 2017] -
2017's Achievers Under 40
The Journal Record [2017] -
Gambling addiction: In some ways, harder to beat than drug abuse
Tulsa World [January 25, 2016] -
Cherokee girl ‘Baby Veronica’ given to adoptive parents over father’s objections
The Mercury News [September 23, 2013] -
Cherokee Indian girl's father faces charges in adoption dispute
CBS News [August 11, 2013]