Amanda Kruger Hill, PhD

Dr. Amanda Kruger Hill is an award-winning educational leader with over twenty years of experience. In addition to serving as Cowen Institute’s Executive Director, Professor Hill teaches two courses at Tulane, which she co-designed: Education in a Diverse Society (EDLA 2000) and Leadership (SLAM 3010). Dr. Hill also helped to launch Tulane's School of Professional Advancement's new Master's in Education program. 

She earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Johns Hopkins University and her Master’s in Educational Leadership, Principal Licensure, and Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Education with honors from the University of California, Berkeley. 

As an educational entrepreneur, Amanda was on the design teams for the first youth-initiated high school in the United States, the Reach Institute for School Leadership, and New Harmony High, an award-winning XQ Super School.

Additionally, Amanda is a former public high school teacher and principal. She provided system-level leadership at New Schools for New Orleans and College Summit (now Peer Forward). Amanda received a public commendation for Outstanding Community Impact as well as a Tulane Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award, and was selected as one of Gambit’s 40 under 40 and Tulane Women’s Association’s Woman of the Year.

Amanda has coaching certifications from the Center for Executive Coaching, Tulane's Leadership Institute, and the National Equity Project and has mentored aspiring leaders through Columbia University’s Principals’ Academy, Relay Graduate School of Education’s National Principal’s Academy Fellowship, and Tulane’s Leadership Institute and Antiracist Leadership Program.