She left the law to pursue public service, and became the Deputy Executive Director of Millennium Promise, a nonprofit founded by economist Jeffrey Sachs and philanthropist Raymond Chambers, focused on eradicating extreme poverty. Amanda Fuhrman is currently a Trustee of Edible Schoolyard NYC. In 2009, she co-curated with Philae Knight the exhibition Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner at FLAG, which featured a cross section of New York–based artists who were either without, or who had lost, gallery representation as a result of the 2008 economic downturn.