Amanda DuBois is the managing partner of DuBois Cary Law Group in Seattle, Washington. She has over thirty years of litigation and negotiating experience mostly in the area of family law. Ms. DuBois is the lead author of the Legal Survival Online curriculum. She is the founder and board president of Civil Survival Project, a non-profit that teaches formerly incarcerated individuals and their allies to advocate for themselves in local and state government and other institutions. Civil Survival Project is now led and staffed entirely by people who have served time in prison. Civil Survival Project is responsible for passing significant legislation in Washington State focusing on reentry and equity issues. 

Ms. DuBois is a current board member of Public Defender Association in Seattle which advocates for justice reform and develops alternatives to incarceration; she is on the board of The Freedom Education Project of Puget Sound (FEPPS) which provides accredited college classes to women prisoners and former prisoners in Washington State; and she is on the board of Uplift International which advocates for global health issues including the right to family planning. Ms. DuBois is a member of Women’s Presidents Organization. She is the past president of Woman’s Funding Alliance – the largest funder of programs focusing on women and girls in Washington State, she is a former board member of Peace Trees Vietnam which works to remove landmines and create community centers in Quang Tri Province Vietnam, she served on the Board of  Governors of Washington State Association for Justice, and she is a former board member of Post-Prison Education Program, Shoreline Public School Foundation, Stevens Hospital Foundation (now Swedish Medical Center Edmonds), and Center for Spiritual Living.

Ms. DuBois holds a Bachelor of Nursing from Pacific Lutheran University and is a graduate of Seattle University School of Law.