Amanda Wolf | Create

Amanda Wolf hails from Seattle and opened Peace Rose Montessori School when she moved to Wilmington in 2011. As an educator and entrepreneur, community development is her passion, and she actively plays in the creative fields of film, theatre, and the arts.

One of Amanda’s missions as Co-Director for Peace Rose was to foster a creative community for students with the arts, actively working to connect students from elementary to high school ages with fine arts, performance arts, and theatre arts opportunities, like a growing musical theatre program, a school film festival, and various internships and field trips with local artists and creatives.

She’s a board member of Wilmington’s Mouths of Babes Theatre, a social justice theatre company focused on issues that matter locally, such as race relations and the 1898 Massacre. In addition, Amanda is closely tied to the Cucalorus Film Festival, as a supporter and a dancer in dance-a-lorus – and through connecting her Peace Rose students to festival programming opportunities.

In her personal life, she is a lover of 90's hip hop, snowboarding, espresso, travel, and being weird. Says, Amanda, “Growing up, some things that have informed my quirk include being a lover of Full House, Nickelodeon's All That, drawing Aztec symbols, wearing rainbow tie dye with neon bike shorts, and having a clear obsession with all things Nightmare Before Christmas and Hocus Pocus. And I am still this person! My 39-year-old self echos my 8-year-old self. Working with students on the daily help me remain in an unashamed childlike state. Who needs adulting?”