Amanda VanConant (Northrop) is the Digital Marketing Manager at LVGEA, where she shapes the organization's brand standards, visual identity, and design execution across all platforms. She grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with family trips to the Great Lakes that nurtured her early connection to nature. She earned her BFA in Graphic Design from Grand Valley State University, where her love of color theory, hand lettering, printmaking, and infographics flourished. Here, she also built a working belief that design is best when it connects to community and the environment.

Determined to put that belief to work, she joined the award-winning climate journalism team at Circle of Blue in Traverse City as a design intern in 2012. Her data visualizations on the global water crisis were showcased at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. After graduating, she joined Vox.com in Washington, D.C. She spent eight years at Vox as Associate Design Editor and Social Graphics Designer, setting editorial standards, producing award-winning multimedia interactives, and art directing editorial partnerships including The Highlight on Apple News. Projects like "Weather 2050," "Supertrees," and "25 Episodes that Changed Television" were her favorites: collaborative, ambitious, and distinct.

With a freelance career spanning over a decade, she has worked with clients including Grand Valley State University, Reveal News, Inman, and Baby’s Bounty, and received a 2023 Peabody Award nomination as well as a 2020 Scripps Howard Award for her collaborative work at Vox.

Today, Amanda lives in Las Vegas, NV. She enjoys exploring the city and nearby national parks with her husband, playing drums, painting, rollerblading, and gardening alongside her renowned horticulturist assistant, Vino the cat.