Amanda Meng completed her PhD at Georgia Tech in International Affairs, Science, and Technology in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2016. Her research interests lie in the intersects of democracy, technology, data and activism. For her dissertation research she investigated how social movements make use of open government data to make claims on government. Amanda worked as a research scientists in the College of Computing from 2017 - 2020 investigating resident-led data collection projects in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout her career as a practitioner and academic she has spent time in the Dominican Republic (RPCV 2009-2011), India, Ghana, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Argentina, and Atlanta studying or implementing projects for development or democracy outcomes using data and information communication technologies. She is currently research faculty in Georgia Tech's College of Computing, School of Computer Science and brings a social science lens to the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis project at Georgia Tech.