Morris joins health and wellness team at Washington Post

The following excerpt announcement was sent out from The Washington Post’s wellness editor Tara Parker-Pope:

I am delighted to announce that Amanda Morris, a trailblazing reporter on the disability beat, is joining The Washington Post’s expanding personal health and wellness team.

In this role, Amanda will write on issues related to disability and chronic illness, which affects a large, underserved and typically misunderstood community of readers.

Before joining The Post, Amanda was the inaugural disability reporting fellow at the New York Times, where she wrote several must-read stories, including how technology and culture are changing American Sign Language, the indignities experienced by airline travelers who use wheelchairs, how home covid tests are inaccessible to blind people, the benefits of remote learning for some disabled students and the future of space travel for people with disabilities.

Amanda was previously a multimedia bioscience reporter for the Arizona Republic, where she answered reader questions through a covid-19 helpline, wrote about the disappearance of important soil organisms in Arizona and used her data journalism and multimedia skills to create a six-part series on stem cell treatments. She has also worked for the Associated Press, NPR and CNN.

She is a graduate of New York University, where she double majored in media culture and communications and journalism.