Amanda Chen has spent 20 years as a strategist and creative leader working at the intersection of culture, storytelling, philanthropy and systems change. As a founding partner of MATR Labs, she helps organizations and funders translate complex social priorities into compelling narrative strategies, creative platforms and audience engagement opportunities.
Her work brings together strategic thinking, creative development and partnership building to help institutions understand not simply what they want to communicate, but how stories can move people, shape culture and create momentum for change.
As Senior Vice President of Impact at Participant, she led the company’s Impact and Engagement work across its documentary and narrative film and TV slate, on issues including mental health, harm reduction, climate justice, education and human rights. In 2017 she initiated and led Participant’s first B Corp certification. She also built TakePart World, a multimedia global health and development series funded by the Gates Foundation.
Before Participant, Chen was Associate Director of Commitments at the Clinton Global Initiative, where she oversaw global health programming and a portfolio of 260 commitments. She was named a Variety New Hollywood Leader in Social Impact, is a Southern California Leadership Network Fellow, and holds a B.A. in International Development from UCLA and an M.A. in Global Political Economy from UCSB.
