Amanda Rooker

Amanda Rooker is a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, specializing in politics, policy and foreign affairs. Currently, Amanda covers politics for Medill News Service. Her work has taken her across the globe, having reported on environmental issues in Cuba, the Iowa Caucus in Iowa City and local politics, immigration and legal affairs in Chicago. As an undergraduate students at Northwestern, she conducted research on education as a Farrell Fellow and studied the European Union in Paris. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.