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Amanda Southworth
Amanda Southworth is the cofounder and CTO of Faura, a natural disaster resilience company, where she leads the engineering behind its property risk and resilience analytics.
Before Faura, she founded and ran Astra Labs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit building software for people in crisis, including those living with severe mental illness, facing abuse, or experiencing homelessness. She started programming at 11, shipped her first app at 13, and left high school to run Astra full-time. Her work there includes Verena, an SMS-based safety system for LGBTQ+ youth in abusive homes; Aetheria, a mental illness management app covering more than 30 diagnoses; and Aureus, an open-source design system for nonprofits building safety-critical software.
Her work has been featured by CNN, USA Today, and Oprah. She co-created a Today at Apple lab and was named one of Teen Vogue's 21 Under 21.
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