Amanda Martinez Morrison holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She has experience teaching at colleges and universities throughout Northern California including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Sonoma State University. Her research interests include popular culture, race relations, Latinx and Chicanx identity, Black and Brown cultural collaborations, popular music, and youth subcultures. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Bay Area hip-hop scene entitled Freaks of the Industry: Peculiarities of Race and Place in Bay Area Hip-Hop. Dr. Morrison has also written articles on music and the arts for the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the Austin American-Statesman. Before going to graduate school, she served for four years as a journalist covering the Bay Area arts and music scene for the online magazine Citysearch.com in San Francisco.

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