Amanda Neatrour

Amanda is an ACC certified coach, certified 200 hour Raja yoga instructor, and owner of Lewis Neatrour Group, a firm which supports leaders and organizations to align their actions and intent, with creating positive outcomes for a sustainable future. Her community leadership, activism, and advocacy is rooted in her experiences as a disabled Black woman on the spectrum, living with mental health disabilities and is also a sandwich caregiver to two boys and a mother living with Alzheimer's. As Mrs. Pennsylvania American 2024, Amanda worked alongside the Alzheimer's Association, being recognized as a Community Leader to support efforts to raise awareness of the needs of caregivers of those living with Alzheimer's. Amanda also partnered with Healthy Start Pittsburgh to further education on the impact of healthy parents and caregivers on the health and wellbeing of our babies.

As a community leader, Amand served as an inaugural member of Pittsburgh's Gender Equity Commission and as its Chair, advocating for a more equitable city, with a particular focus on pay equity. This year Amanda completed a term as a member of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Women where she served as the Chair of the Aging sub-committee, and Spring 2025 Amanda was sworn in as a member of the Governor's Advisory Committee for the Office of Alzheimer's Dementia, and Related Disorders. Additionally Amanda has partnered and served with organizations such as the Women and Girls Foundation and the FISA Foundation to advocate for the rights and dignity of women and girls, disabled people including members of the global majority and women, and and equitable pay and financial access to paid and unpaid caregivers.

An opera singer and producer, in 2022 Amanda co-produced and starred in an all-woman, new production of Missy Mazzoli’s opera “Song from the Uproar” which was a project aimed at raising awareness of gender disparities in the performing arts. Amanda performed the starring role of Isabel just 7 weeks after giving birth to her second child and is the first Black woman to perform the lead role.

Amanda holds a B.Mus and M.Mus in voice performance from Howard University, and an MBA from Robert Morris University.