MIHS senior Marley MacDonald Interviews Amanda Knox On Breakfast on the Bridge

Mercer Island, WA, May 21, 2025 – Mercer Island High School (MIHS) senior Marley MacDonald interviewed Amanda Knox on Tuesday, May 20 for a Breakfast on the Bridge interview that aired on KMIH 88.9 this afternoon.

MacDonald spoke with Knox about the release of her memoir “Free: My Search for Meaning”. ​Free recounts how Knox survived incarceration for a murder she didn't commit, the misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the untold story of her return to Italy and the extraordinary relationship she’s built with the man who sent her to prison.

Knox will be the keynote speaker at the 2025 Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund Award Ceremony on Saturday, May 24, at 1pm at Seattle University. Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of President Barack Obama, graduated from MIHS in 1960 and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1967 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Masters of Anthropology from the University of Hawaii in 1975. She was a pioneering anthropologist who developed a microfinance model to help turn traditional craft industries into sustainable businesses that could support artisans—especially women and their families.

Every spring the Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund awards multiple $5,000 college scholarships to female-identifying students enrolled in the graduating senior class at MIHS, Chief Sealth International High School, and Rainier Beach High School who demonstrate commitment to the values and goals embodied in the life and work of Dunham. These values and goals include:

• serving Powerful Groups Targeted for Oppression (PGTOs);
• promoting social justice and the rights of women;
• organizing and empowering communities;
• respecting and understanding diverse cultures; and
• demonstrating rigorous and socially relevant academic work.

Three MIHS seniors will be honored at the Award Ceremony on May 24. These students are: Regina Lee, Katrina Mehal, and Sophia Maligaya.

About Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, and co-host, with her partner Christopher Robinson, of the podcast Labyrinths. Her second book, FREE: My Search for Meaning was released in March of 2025.  Between 2007 and 2015, she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. She has since become an advocate for criminal justice reform and media ethics. She sits on the advisory council for the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice, serves as an Innocence Network Ambassador and is on The Innocence Center Board of Directors. And she is the recipient of the 2024 Innocence Network Impact Award. You can find more of her work at www.amandaknox.com and on X, Instagram, and Bluesky.

About KMIH 88.9 The Bridge
KMIH 88.9 FM is a high school radio station owned by Mercer Island School District, with studios located at Mercer Island High School. It is one of three high school radio stations in the Seattle Metro area. As the only FM service licensed to the City of Mercer Island, it is used as one of the primary emergency communication methods for the city. KMIH is mostly composed of students enrolled in the Radio Broadcasting program at MIHS, however, the station welcomes all that are eager to take part in creating good media. KMIH hosts a variety of content, including student shows, event promotions, and daily newscasts and sportscasts.