Amanda Hamilton a linguist began work at the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in 2011 after working at the Centre for Applied Linguistics in Washington, Dc., and in eastern Indonesia where she assisted in a historical linguistics research project. Amanda was conferred major M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii, where she also taught an introductory linguistics course, she has also conferred her B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. (Source: Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
website www.wangkamaya.org.au)