Amanda Hearst, an art history major at Fordham University, helped to establish and is working to build Riverkeeper’s new junior council of the Board. She serves as that committee’s chair.

As an Elite model, Amanda has appeared on the covers of Town & Country, International Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and other major magazines, and has been featured in Vanity Fair. She also writes a monthly column for Hamptons and Gotham magazines.

Amanda has supported Riverkeeper by designating us a beneficiary of Polo Jeans Co.’s 2005 G.I.V.E. Campaign and by generously donating her modeling fee from the campaign to Riverkeeper. In addition, along with her mother, Riverkeeper board member Anne Hearst McInerney, Amanda co-hosted a successful fundraiser for Riverkeeper in the Hamptons in summer 2005.