Amanda is a native of Lima, Ohio.  She graduated from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana in 2004 and from the graduate school of the University of Dayton in Ohio in 2006.   She has a B.A. in Religious Studies and a M.A. in Pastoral Studies.  The middle of five children, Amanda recently started her own family with her marriage to Louis Albarran on November 1, 2008 and the birth of their daughter, Amelia, on September 29, 2009. Amanda was hired as the Director of Youth Ministry for St. Margaret Mary, St. Patrick, and St. Joseph University Parishes in the Summer of 2007.  In her free time, she enjoys hiking, movies, reading, board games, music, watching Ohio State football and listening to the Chicago Cubs.