Amanda Marcotte is a liberal American writer, author, and blogger who writes about feminism and politics. She also serves as a senior political writer for Salon. She also publishes a biweekly newsletter called Standing Room Only.
Amanda Marcotte Age
Amanda Marcotte was born in El Paso, Texas, in the United States on September 2, 1977. She is 45 years old.
Amanda Marcotte Height
Amanda stands at an average stature of 5 ft 7 in/1.7m tall.
Amanda Marcotte Family
Amanda is a native of El Paso, Texas, in the United States. On the other hand, she was raised in Alpine, Texas. She also grew up in a conservative family with parents who enjoy Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Amanda Marcotte Husband
Amanda is happily married to her husband Marc Faletti. Her spouse is an American producer who works at Rewire News as the vice president of Multimedia. Marc was previously the Vice President of Multimedia at RNG.
Her husband is also a graduate of the University of Texas, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in arts. Amanda and her husband live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Amanda Marcotte Education
Alpine High School provided Amanda with her high school diploma. She also attended St. Edward’s University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1999.
Amanda Marcotte Salary
Amanda receives an annual salary of $105,000.
Amanda Marcotte Net Worth
Amanda’s approximate net worth is $2 million.
Amanda Marcotte Career
She is a senior political writer for Salon. Amanda has also written for other magazines such as Slate and The Guardian. She also began her writing career as a blogger for a leftist blog, Pandagon.net, before joining Slate. Amanda was also honored with a Koufax Award in 2004 for her Mouse Words blog.
She has been labeled as an outspoken voice of the left by Time Magazine while working as a blogger. Furthermore, the magazine described her blogging style as “provocative and profanity-laced.”
She has made provocative statements on her blog throughout her blogging career, including condemnation of the men wrongly implicated in the Duke lacrosse case. Furthermore, one of her issues is her use of vulgar language to refer to Catholic belief on Jesus’ virgin birth, portraying the Church’s opposition to birth control as motivated by a desire to compel women into bearing more tithe Catholics.
Amanda was also hired as the blog master for John Edwards’ 2008 presidential campaign in January 2007. Following the criticism, she announced her retirement from the Edwards campaign in a Salon post a few days later.
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