Amanda Ripley
Time Magazine
Amanda Ripley (Washington). Amanda is a contributing writer at Time magazine, covering risk and homeland security. She has traveled the world reporting on disasters, natural and manmade. She is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, which was published in 2008. In 2005, Amanda covered Hurricanes Katrina and Rita from New Orleans, helping Time win two National Magazine Awards.
Walt Whitman High School presentation on March 5, 2009.