The Rev. Amanda March
The Rev. Amanda March is an Episcopal priest and a board-certified chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains. A fifth-generation Floridian and cradle Episcopalian, whose relatives came directly from Ireland to Florida via Ellis Island in 1836, Amanda raised her three sons in Central Florida. Amanda's career began as an early childhood educator. Following her call into the vocation of spiritual care, she has served in Florida and Massachusetts as an interfaith healthcare chaplain in various settings, providing spiritual care in contexts including hospitals, prisons, hospice, as well as within the unhoused and economically marginalized communities of inner city Boston. In 2011, she migrated north to attend Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she received her Master of Divinity there in 2014. In 2015 she received her national board certification as a professional healthcare chaplain. In January of 2018 Amanda was ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Massachusetts and returned to Orlando later that same year to work as a hospice chaplain full time. Disability necessitated Amanda’s retirement from hospice chaplaincy in 2021. She is married to Jennifer Dasher and finds her deepest joy in her three adult sons, daughters-in-law, and two granddaughters, all of whom live close by.