Bio
Amanda Scott Daigle is a legal and public policy advocate committed to social and economic justice. She is currently pursuing her J.D. at American University Washington College of Law. Before law school, Amanda worked as a paralegal for six years at the National ACLU's Voting Rights Project on cases representing historically disenfranchised Black communities, public assistance clients, and disabled voters. Amanda had the distinction of serving as the lead paralegal on two U.S. Supreme Court cases: Allen v. Milligan (2023) striking down Alabama’s congressional maps for racial gerrymandering, and Trump v. New York (2020) challenging President Trump’s efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment.
While in college, Amanda interned at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the D.C. Mayor's Office. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Amanda obtained her GED, earned an A.A.S. in Paralegal Studies from Coastal Alabama Community College, and received a full scholarship to Georgetown University where she graduated with her B.A. in Government and History as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Senior Class Speaker. Her writing on social and economic justice issues has been published in print and online in The Washington Post, The Montgomery Advertiser, and AL.com. Amanda has lived in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Peter since moving to the Washington, D.C. metro area in 2016.