Hello! I'm Rev Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft (she/her).  I am a lifelong learner, cultural organizer, movement builder, consultant, and public theologian at the intersections of religion, race, politics, and parenting.  I am here for all avenues that move us toward a collectively liberated society.

I’m the founder of Raising Imagination, the Consulting Community Minister at Middle Church, and serve on the Clergy Advisory Board of Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts, the Advisory Committee of the This Land is Ours Community Land Trust, the Diverse Books Coalition and Early Childhood Parent Power Building Cohort for Moms Rising, and am a member of Mamas 4 a Free Palestine.  I’ve presented nationwide on topics including pairing our voting habits with our faith, striving to raise anti-racist white kids, the manipulation of the Religious Right in the fight for reproductive justice, and involving young children in advocacy.  I've been featured on Huffington Post, CNN, MSNBC, Crooked Media, the Wall Street Journal, Refinery29, and am a regular liberal on Fox News.  I've consulted with the Harvard School of Education, Red Wine & Blue, and Embrace Race, and collaborated with Racy Conversations, Parenting is Political, Raising Race Conscious Kids, and Vote Common Good to name a few.  Originally from a small town in Kentucky, I'm a proud 17-year New Yorker, living in the East Village with my husband Graham, 9-year-old twins Zane and Levi, 8-year-old daughter Skyer, and 17-month-old daughter Larkin.