Speaker Profile

Amanda Knox

Author, Speaker, Producer and Criminal Justice Advocate

Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, 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. Her second book, FREE: My Search for Meaning, came out March 25, 2025. 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. Knox sits on the advisory council for the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice, serves as an Innocence Network Ambassador and is on The Innocence Center Board of Directors. She is also the recipient of the 2024 Innocence Network Impact Award.

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Podcast

Vox Media presents CRIMINAL

Sat May 31, 2025 | 4:15pm
In-person
Big Ideas Stage

Criminal is an award-winning podcast about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. In 2009, Amanda Knox was convicted in an Italian court for the murder of her roommate. Five years later, she was acquitted — and began the process of figuring out what came next. Criminal host Phoebe Judge sits down with Amanda Knox for a conversation about how to restart life when everyone has an opinion about you, and the unlikely relationship she’s formed with the man who prosecuted her case.

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Featuring: Phoebe Judge, Amanda Knox

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The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event in downtown Seattle, featuring live podcast recordings and studio television tapings from The Atlantic, NPR, CNN, Vox, PBS, Crooked Media, The Gist, Open to Debate, and more. Watch live as journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world take on hot topics making news and the biggest issues of our time. Plus, community meetups, speaker meet-and-greets, micro-sessions, food trucks, DJs, and artists.

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