Amanda Tyler
Amanda Tyler is executive director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC), leading the organization as it upholds the historic Baptist principle of religious liberty: defending the free exercise of religion and protecting against its establishment by government. She is the lead organizer of BJC’s Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign and co-host of BJC’s Respecting Religion podcast. Tyler’s constitutional law analysis and advocacy for faith freedom for all have been featured by major news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News, ABC News, CNN, and MSNBC. Religious News Service named Tyler one of “2022’s rising stars in religion,” and she regularly preaches in Baptist churches, speaks at denominational gatherings, and leads sessions on college campuses and with community groups of all sizes.
A member of the Texas and U.S. Supreme Court Bar, Tyler has experience working in Congress, in a private legal practice, and as a law clerk for a federal judge. She testified before Congress in 2022 and 2023 about the ways in which Christian nationalism provides cover for white supremacy and in 2018 about threats to religious liberty around the world. Tyler graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in foreign service, magna cum laude, and earned her J.D. with honors from The University of Texas School of Law. In 2019, the school named her their “Outstanding Young Alumna.” Following law school, Tyler worked in private practice and served as a law clerk for a U.S. district court judge in Dallas, Texas. She worked on the staff of U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett in Austin and Washington, D.C. for several years, serving as the congressman’s district director and then as his counsel for the Ways and Means Committee. She lives with her family in Dallas.