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Amanda Knox

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Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, television producer, actress, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, and co-host, with her partner Christopher Robinson, of the podcast Labyrinths. Between 2007 and 2015, she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't commit. She has since become an advocate for criminal justice reform and media ethics. Her writing has been widely published in such outlets as The Atlantic, the LA Times, and The Free Press. She sits on the board of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and serves as an Innocence Network Ambassador.
- IMDb mini biography by: Amanda Knox

She is of German descent. Her mother was born in Germany, Knox still has family there, and she speaks some German.

"Had my normal sexual life not been misrepresented as promiscuous and deviant, and had that invented deviancy not been erroneously correlated with capacity for murder, my trial might have turned out much differently. As it happened, that labeling and distortion of my character took away years of my life." (Playboy Magazine)
[on The Innocence Network and being an exoneree] "I am part of a tribe of people I would have never been mixed in with otherwise. They are mostly impoverished black men who are unable to defend themselves, who took the weight of other people's mistakes onto their lives. I'm humbled and honored to stand among them. We get together once a year at the conferences, we give each other calls and help each other and give each other advice. I didn't know that world existed before any of this happened. If anything, I am paying attention to that community and how that community is doing. They are saving people's lives, including mine." (Rolling Stone)
[on the Netflix documentary] "As soon as the film came out, hundreds of people, for weeks, were sending me messages like, 'I'm sorry. I realize now you're a person, not a monster.'" (People Magazine)
"I was at peace with the idea that people would never treat me as a human, and that was one of the main motivations I've had to bring attention to other exoneree stories." (The Seattle Times)

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