Amanda Leesburg
Director of Community Engagement
A 20-year veteran of the communications industry, Amanda Leesburg has deep experience in multiple verticals including sustainability, local, regional and national environmental campaigns, community and government outreach, corporate partnerships, and diversity programs. In 2007, she created one of the first sustainable “green” marketing and public relations firms in Atlanta working with clients and non-profit organizations including Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Animal Planet, Captain Planet Foundation, Westside Future Fund, EcoSmart, Wellness Within Your Walls, Laura Turner Seydel and more.
A native of Birmingham, Ala., Amanda’s eco-activism began when she joined TALS (Teens Against a Littered State) in high school to participate in multiple nature and wildlife outreach campaigns. Her mother was her early eco-influencer as a trailblazing natural tablescape artist and eco-friendly interior designer, advocating for no VOC paint and vegetable dyed rugs before they were mainstream or “cool.”
Over the course of her career, Amanda has helped launch more than 50 non-toxic, healthy living and sustainable consumer products and introduced media to new environmental categories including slow fashion and healthy indoor air products. As a television publicist, Amanda has worked with networks including Turner South, Discovery Home, Discovery Health and Discovery Digital Networks and has worked one-on-one with many celebrity clients. Prior to launching her sustainable agency, Amanda worked for nationally recognized public relations firms and organizations in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta including Ketchum, Edelman, PBS Television and the public affairs firm of Dowling Langley & Associates.
She holds a B.A. in speech communication from The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), lives in Atlanta, and plans to visit all U.S. national parks over the next five years in hopes of finally seeing a moose in the wild.