Bio

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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