Background
Hurst, Amanda Cady was born on November 26, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Foss and Helen Pontanini.
Hurst, Amanda Cady was born on November 26, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Foss and Helen Pontanini.
Certified Assault Counseling Techniques, Edgewater/Uptown Mental Health, 1987. Certified Community Service Management, Roosevelt University, 1989.
Staff, Chicago Women's Liberation Union, 1975-1976;
founder, chairman, Uptown Women's Coalition, Chicago, 1988-1989;
founding and steering commission member, Society Women in Philosophy, Chicago, 1984-1988;
founder, director, Vega Youth Network, Chicago, 1981-1985;
executive director, The Centre, Inc., Chicago, since 1985. County member City Chicago/Youth Coord. Committee, 1986-1989.
Official state representative American Double-Dutch League, Chicago, 1987-1988. President Alternative Schools Network, Chicago, since 1992. Founding member, president Just Us For Youth/Children's Legal Clinic, since 1992.
Founding member Magenta Society, 1993.
Member advisory board Chicago Police Department/24th District Steering Committee, Chicago, 1988-1990. Member Roosevelt University American Policy Studies Center, Chicago, 1987-1988. Member child welfare committee Chicago Bar Association, 1991.
Member National Society Fund Raising Executives, International Platform Association.
Married Richard C. Hurst, January 3, 1970 (divorced June 1976). 1 child, Richard Darian Hurst.