Amanda Lamb is a veteran television crime reporter with more than three decades of experience. For most of her career, she worked for award-winning WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is also a podcaster, an author, and an adjunct professor of journalism.

Amanda owns and operates Stage Might Communications which helps people with everything from content creation to media training to public speaking. In 2024 she launched her first independent podcast which she writes, hosts, produces and edits called AGELESS. The show features the powerful stories of women over fifty who are transforming their lives both professionally and personally.

In 2020, Amanda began her podcasting journey at WRAL. She created, hosted, and produced a weekday morning interview show called the WRAL Daily Download. She has also hosted and co-produced three narrative true crime podcasts including Follow the Truth which won the regional Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in journalism.

Amanda is an author with a dozen published books including a fictional murder mystery series, three true crime books based on murder cases she covered for WRAL, four memoirs, one about caregiving, three about parenting, and two children’s books. She writes a monthly blog WRAL’s website for the WRAL Family section.

Amanda is originally from the Philadelphia area and holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a graduate degree in journalism from Northwestern University. To learn more about Amanda and her work go to www.alambauthor.com or follow her on social media at: Official Amanda Lamb, Stage Might , Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube.

Gabrielle Graeter is a Conservation Biologist and Herpetologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, based out of Asheville. Gabrielle is originally from the mountains of North Carolina and a proud NCSSM graduate. After NCSSM, she went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a B.S. in Biology. After a couple of years of leading outdoor adventure trips, environmental education, and working as a Biological Technician with the US Forest Service, she headed back to school to get a M.S. in Ecology from the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology, where she studied the effects of landscape fragmentation on reptiles and amphibians.

Gabrielle’s current work involves studying the reptiles of western North Carolina to better understand their distribution and determine their population status. The focus is on population monitoring, assessing threats, and taking action to help priority species. Gabrielle has worked in mountain bogs and with reptiles for 18 years. She spends a lot of time with the Federally Threatened bog turtle, and a lot of time in the wetlands—mountain bogs – that the species inhabits. In addition to her work with turtles, snakes, and lizards, she also restores habitat, protects land, builds relationships with private landowners to improve conservation, and collaborates with a multitude of conservation partners.

Gabrielle is not in this work for the accolades or the money, but for the satisfaction of knowing she is making a real difference for conservation in the beautiful and biodiverse mountains of North Carolina. Her accomplishments include earning the prestigious Conservation Hero Award from Southeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation in 2022, serving as a chair and committee member for multiple conservation groups, spreading the word about these conservation efforts through various media, numerous scientific publications, and mentoring the next generation of conservation biologists.