Amanda Morris

Washington, D.C.

Disability Reporter

Education: New York University, BS in Journalism and Media, Culture and Communications

Amanda Morris is a disability reporter for The Washington Post who has trailblazed on this beat. Before joining The Post in 2022, she was the inaugural disability reporting fellow for the New York Times and previously covered science, politics and national news for outlets like the Arizona Republic, the Associated Press and NPR. She uses her experiences as a hard of hearing woman with two deaf parents to inform her coverage.
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Paralympics celebrate disability, but in Paris, access has been hit-or-miss

To learn what it was like to navigate Paris with a disability during the Paralympics, The Washington Post spent an afternoon with a fan who uses a wheelchair.

September 6, 2024
Spectators outside the Champ-de-Mars Arena, where the wheelchair rugby gold medal match was held Sept. 2. (Cyril Zannettacci/Agence VU for The Washington Post)

Sports helped Oksana Masters heal from trauma, find love and win gold

To Oksana Masters, Paralympic superstardom is an opportunity to talk about mental health, equity for Paralympians, orphanage systems and normalizing disability.

September 5, 2024

Why some disabled workers make $1 an hour

Across the country thousands of disabled workers are making less than a dollar an hour. Today, an investigation into the federal program that allows workers to earn subminimum wages, its lack of oversight and why so many families still support it.

September 3, 2024

At Paralympics, goalball is ‘the coolest sport you’ve never heard of’

Goalball is unique to the Paralympics. And it’s a sport in which blind people have an advantage over sighted people.

September 2, 2024
Team USA goalball players try to catch the ball during a men's preliminary-round match against Iran in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Sunday.

Hunter Woodhall cheered his Olympian wife. Now it’s his turn to compete.

Hunter Woodhall, a three-time Paralympian, aims for gold in the upcoming Paralympics after going viral cheering his Olympian wife Tara Davis-Woodhall.

September 1, 2024
Hunter Woodhall celebrates with his wife, Tara Davis-Woodhall, after she won the women's long jump at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Matt Stutzman is an armless Paralympic archer. Now he’s not the only one.

Matt Stutzman competed in the Paralympics as its only armless archer for a long time. But he has proved to be a trailblazer.

August 30, 2024
Matt Stutzman competes in the opening round of the men's archery tournament at the Paris Paralympics on Thursday.

Why some U.S. disabled workers are making less than a dollar an hour

A federal statute of the Fair Labor Standards Act has allowed companies to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage since 1938.

August 30, 2024
From left to right, Snehal Pardiwala, Claudia Gomez, Andre Heath, María Castellanos and Alex Estine work on different contract jobs, including for hearing aid manufacturer Oticon, at Pathways to Independence.

Fight over pay for people with disabilities may erupt next month

A rule the Biden administration is considering could ignite a war over the future of the decades-old 14(c) subminimum wage law, which allows certain employers to pay disabled workers far less than minimum wage.

August 30, 2024

Some disabled workers in the U.S. make pennies per hour. It’s legal.

Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers can legally pay disabled workers subminimum wages. Many workers never move to higher-paying jobs.

August 30, 2024

They call it ‘murderball.’ Wheelchair rugby isn’t for the faint of heart.

Wheelchair rugby, also known as murderball, is a young, but fast-growing sport. Learn about some Team USA players at the Paris Paralympics and why it’s popular.

August 29, 2024
Athletes practice at the Lakeshore Foundation facility in Birmingham, Ala., on May 17. (Charity Rachelle for The Washington Post)