About Mighty Forces
Mighty Forces is a storytelling company dedicated to amplifying diverse, authentic voices in service of creating a more connected, inspiring world.
Whether you’re looking for help telling your organization’s story or your personal story, we create the space for great stories to shine through.
We can be heroes — and content creators
Our founder, Amanda Hirsch, advocates for systemic changes to the media systems that govern our world, from rethinking social media for the social good, to diversifying the stories that get told in TV and film and creating sustainable models for noncommercial journalism.
She believes that every one of us has the power and opportunity to be part of the solution. How? By relating to media as a creator, not just a consumer.
The fact of the matter is, we all have voices, ideas, and stories worth sharing. The more we participate in media-making (and yes, posting to social media is media-making! — as is writing a newsletter or blog, posting photos and videos, and podcasting), the more we exercise our power to shape the world.
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Author & improvisor
Amanda is is the author of two books, “Improvising Adulthood: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me” (2025) and “Feeling My Way: Finding Motherhood Without Losing Myself”(2013).
She is also a long-time comedic improvisor who performs with her husband, Jordan, in a show called Til Death.
Follow Amanda’s creative work at amandahirsch.com
Meet Amanda Hirsch
Founder and CEO
Amanda is on a mission to disrupt the storytelling status quo.
A writer, storytelling strategist and coach, and office-misfit-turned-entrepreneur, Amanda is passionate about the need for diverse, authentic storytelling and for media systems that foster connection.
Her primary storytelling influences include:
The indie filmmakers she worked with during her time at PBS
Seeing the internet and social media demonstrably drive connection and social change, helping parents with babies in the NICU feel less alone to the Arab Spring
Improv comedy (performing it and studying it)
Professional background
Amanda has spent her career helping leaders and teams at nonprofit organizations, independent media companies, and socially conscious businesses tell strategic stories with the content they create in order to that increase the reach and impact of their work and ideas. She is skilled at clarifying and shaping narratives in service of clear goals, and at conceptualizing creative, compelling ways to amplify narratives through content and experiences.
The former editorial director of PBS.org, and a producer for Washingtonpost.com before that, Amanda has been a featured expert everywhere from SXSW (where she was voted an audience favorite) to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Nonprofit Technology Conference, Etsy, and the National Film Board of Canada.
So, what’s with the “we”? Other than Amanda, who’s part of Mighty Forces?
When a project calls for it, Amanda calls upon her rich network of collaborators, from designers and media producers to journalists, writers, editors, actors, directors, strategists, marketers, social media specialists, and more.
Anti-racism, anti-hate statement
Mighty Forces is anti-racist and anti-hate. We stand in solidarity with people who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodiverse, and from all countries of origin…who follow any religion, or no religion…and who identify as any combination or intersection of these identities. We work actively to create and support a more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative world within the media industry and beyond. We use our platform and network to amplify diverse voices and to call out hate, bigotry, bias, and harm when we see it.
This statement will continue to evolve as we learn and unlearn. If you identify with any of the groups listed above and feel uncomfortable with the language we are using, or feel there’s more we should be saying or doing; have stories or resources you’d like us to amplify through our platform and network; or want to explore ways we might work together, please reach out.
Thank you to editor Nevin Mays, whom Amanda met through the Women’s Media Group, for allowing us to crib heavily from a similar statement that she put on her website.
