Helping the previously incarcerated find their way -- Amanda Dubois, warrior lawyer!

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Speaking with Amanda about her many accomplishments could be intimidating except it's not -- she is open and warm and just wants to make the world better. She has done just that, with her many contributions to groups who help the previously incarcerated.
Amanda DuBois is the founder and managing partner of DuBois Levias Law Group, a woman-owned boutique family law firm on Lake Union in Seattle. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Amanda was a high-risk labor and delivery nurse at the University of Washington Medical Center.

Amanda is the author of the Camille Delaney mystery series. The Complication was published in spring 2022 and Deliver Them From Evil was published in March 2023. She is currently working on the third book in the series, which centers on mothers in prison and the importance of reuniting them with their children. Amanda’s books address inequities in the legal system while offering a fast-paced reading experience with the twists and turns one would expect from a good thriller.

The Complication received an Honorable Mention Award from the Eric Hoffer Book Award in the 2023 E-Fiction category. It was also designated by IndieReader’s as a “Best Reviewed Books of the Month in January 2022. Their review contains a helpful synopsis of the story. And The Complication received a favorable review by Kirkus Reviews in spring 2022. Deliver Them From Evil spent several weeks on the Bestseller list for Medical Thrillers on Amazon shortly after it was published.

Amanda is also the founder of Civil Survival Project, an organization that teaches advocacy skills to formerly incarcerated individuals. Civil Survival Project’s mission is to Educate, Motivate, and Liberate people who have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system. Civil Survival also provides civil legal aid to individuals struggling with the consequences of incarceration and helping them with reentry. For the past several years,

Amanda has mentored Tarra Simmons, who is a formerly incarcerated lawyer and the executive director of Civil Survival Project. Amanda recently founded the Full Circle Scholarship at her alma mater, Seattle University School of Law. The scholarship helps fund tuition for students who have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system. Amanda was recently awarded the Sally P. Savage Leadership in Philanthropy Award from the Washington State Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Foundation.

Amanda is the Vice President of the board of Purpose Dignity Action in Seattle (which advocates for criminal legal system reform and develops alternatives that shift from apunishment paradigm to a system that supports individual and community health). She is also aboard member of Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (which pr vides post-secondary education to women inside Washington Corrections Center for Women). She is the past president of the Women's Funding Alliance, and has served on a number of community boards, and is currently a member of the Seattle Chapter of the Women's President's Association.

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