Amanda Shepherd

Amanda Shepherd is breaking through prison walls with graphic design, helping prisoners to make their time count.

Amanda Shepherd is a co-founder and director of Green Fox Studio, Australia’s first full-service creative agency operating not-for-profit community- and prison-based graphic design training studios to provide marginalised people with skills training and employment opportunity in and beyond the creative arts.

Amanda is an experienced and well-respected designer with a passion for social justice operating an award-winning social enterprise that doesn’t just deliver good design—it’s positively impacting some of our society’s most disadvantaged communities, helping men, women, and children from all walks of life to pave a pathway out of poverty and towards more meaningful participation in safer, more inclusive communities across the country.

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