Amanda K Gross is an intersectional anti-racist organizer and a weaver of people, ideas, and threads. As the founder, author, and creative director of Mistress Syndrome, she writes about the interconnectedness of racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and white womanhood. She is an anti-racist coach, educator, facilitator.
As a hand weaver, mixed media artist, and trained yoga instructor, she integrates creative embodied practices throughout her organizing. Amanda is certified at the 200 hour RYT level by YogaRoots On Location’s Anti-Racist Raja Yoga School. She has an MA in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and is currently pursuing a PhD in Expressive Arts at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Her first full length book, White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change was published in July 2024. She has a chapter in Resistance: Confronting Violence, Power and Abuse within Peace Churches and one in the forthcoming book, Bodies and Beliefs: Purity Culture and the Rhetoric of Religious Trauma.