Who is Amanda Gorman?

Amanda Gorman is a renowned American poet and activist. She is the first person who hold the title of the National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States.

Gorman is widely recognized for her work which acted on the issue of feminism, race, oppression, marginalization, and the African diaspora.

Amanda Gorman: Age, Family, Siblings, Ethnicity

Gorman was born on the 7th of March 1998, in Los Angeles, California. Her full name is Amanda Sarah Chase Gorman. At present, she is 23 years old and her Zodiac sign is Pisces.

Amanda Gorman was raised by her single mother Joan Wicks. Her mother is a 6th-grade English teacher in Watts. She holds an American nationality and is of African-American ethnicity.

Amanda has a twin sister named Gabrielle who is also an activist and filmmaker. She has also another sister whose name is not known at the moment.

Education

Amanda Gorman studied at New Roads, a private school in Santa Monica for K-12. Afterward, she received a scholarship from Milken Family Foundation College.

In 2020, she graduated cum laude from Harvard College in sociology as a member of Phi Beta. Similarly, she studies her semester in Madrid, Spain supported by IES Abroad in 2019.

Talking about her early life, she described herself at a young as a ‘weird child’ who enjoyed reading and writing and was encouraged by her mother. She grew up in a limited television access environment.