Event Director
Amanda Whittaker
Amanda has been involved with Youth Encounter on a Global Work Crew to Tanzania, as a trek leader, on the Captive Free North East Team 05-06, on the New Vision International Team to Australia in 06-07, as a team training Program Director, and now as an Event Ministry Director. Amanda is originally from South Bend, Indiana home of Notre Dame Football and her mom’s lasagna. Amanda graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, worked at a camp in Illinois (everyone should work at a camp at least once), and served as the Director of Youth & Family Ministries and Parish Education at a congregation in Peru, IL. Amanda spends as much time as she can hiking and camping in the summer. She enjoys visiting family and friends the rest of the year (especially the ones that live in non-cold places).