Amanda
Florence
Garcia
Goodenough
Educator. Speaker. Consultant. Coach.
Amanda Florence Garcia Goodenough (she/her/hers) is a dedicated educator operating from a cultural humility framework to center and elevate historically marginalized voices, promote belongingness and mattering, disrupt structural inequities, and advance intersectional social and racial justice.
Leaning on 20+ years of professional experience in justice, equity, decolonization, and interconnectedness (JEDI) efforts, Amanda engages in systems-change work and strives to speak truth to power as an act of love and liberation.
To learn more about Goodenough Consulting, visit www.goodenough-consulting.com.
MOST REQUESTED WORKSHOPS & KEYNOTES• Cultural Humility: Moving Beyond Competence to Advance Equity & Justice
• The Macro Effect of Microaggressions
• Sticks & Stones: The Manifestation of Hate & Bias
• Combating Hate & Bias in the Workplace
• Racial Healing Across Segregated Places and "Midwest Nice" Faces
• When Words Don't Belong to Everyone: The Trauma of Racial Slurs
• Harnessing Bold Leadership for Equitable Workplaces
• In Pursuit of Necessary Trouble: Activism in the AcademyCOACHING & CONSULTINGK-16: Realizing Racially-Just Schools | K-16: Building Effective Hate/Bias Response Teams & Processes | Multiracial Identities | Interracial Relationships | BIPOC Surviving Predominantly White Spaces (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) | Social Justice Activism | JEDI-Centered Bold Leadership (Justice, Equity, Decolonization, & Interconnectedness) | Raise Them to Be Kind Anti-Racist: Parenting through a Justice LensVisit Goodenough Consulting, LLC for more information.
About
Amanda currently serves as the Lead Executive Officer (LEO) and Founder of Goodenough Consulting, LLC (GC). She is also a member of the Greater La Crosse Area Diversity Council's (GLADC) Speakers Bureau, a board member for The Pump House Regional Arts Center, co-creator of the Belonging & Mattering Institute, and an independent contractor for the La Crosse Area YWCA Racial Justice workshops and the Waking Up White Collaborative steering committee. Previously, Amanda served as the Director of the Research & Resource Center for Campus Climate at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she worked for 17 years.Amanda has presented and consulted at the international, national, state, and local levels for institutions of higher education, PK-12 school districts, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and corporate entities on topics of cultural humility, inclusive company/campus climate, bold leadership, hate/bias prevention & response, white supremacy culture, mattering of black lives, racial justice, multiracialism, microaggressions, bystander intervention, student activism, generative conflict, social identity development, power & positionality, and healing centered engagement.Amanda was the 2010 recipient of the Social Justice Achievement Award for YWCA's Tribute to Outstanding Women, and in 2021, Amanda was awarded the La Crosse Area Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Leadership Award. Goodenough Consulting, LLC was recognized with the 2023 Black Excellence Award by Black Student Leaders (BSL) and also received the 2024 Wisconsin Tourism Trailblazer Award for the BaM Institute. In 2025, Goodenough Consulting was again recognized with BSL’s Black Excellence Award and Amanda was also awarded with the 2025 Phenomenal Women Award by UWL’s ALAA student organization.Amanda resides in the La Crosse area of Wisconsin with her husband and two kids. In her spare time, Amanda enjoys camping, blogging, traveling, collecting books she hopes to someday read, and being a soccer & basketball mom.
You can find Amanda on many social media platforms, take a peek at her favorite resources on Pinterest, visit Goodenough Consulting, LLC at www.goodenough-consulting.com, learn more about Social Responsibility Speaks, LLC at www.srspeaks.com, or drop her an email message below.
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"Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." - John Lewis