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Amanda Griffiths is a member of the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus, editor of The Torch, and serves on LPAlliance’s Admin, media, and communications teams. She frequently publishes and speaks on contemporary politics and movement mobilization strategies, ideology, worker empowerment and the labor movement, and Machiavelli’s political thought, which she studies as a PhD candidate (under duress) in political theory.
She is also a contributor to the media network Young Voices and the creator of AGitPop: In Offense of Marxism, a parody album about the Russian Revolution. Ex-LNC Chair Angela McArdle has described her as “a political 4, at best.”
Amanda studied acting, political science, and Italian at the University of Southern California, where she helped organize and stage a successful coup of the university’s College Republicans chapter as a freshman. She received her M.A. from the University of Chicago and is currently working to break out of academia into journalism. Amanda formally joined the Libertarian Party while working as editorial director for the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives.
A firm believer in popular mobilization and direct action, Amanda became active in the Party after critiquing the McArdle LNC’s “kingmaker” approach and developing an alternative framework for coalition-building and Party strategy.
An advocate for radical grassroots activism techniques, Amanda envisions a more powerful, overt role for the Libertarian Party in politics and society—a role that campaigns for not merely candidates, but causes—and believes in broadening the Party’s intellectual, activist, and outreach networks by aligning with other actors and organizations within the liberty movement nationally as well as globally.