Recommendations

Victoria Wagner, CEO of BeyondGenderAgenda

“Amber worked with us at BeyondGenderAgenda as a Diversity Consultant and reported to me as CEO.

As an employee, Amber was always a positive presence who looked to make sure we were focusing on diversity and equity throughout our work. During her time in my team, Amber managed to create our brand and communications guide, consulted on our social media strategy, established our email communications strategy, and ensured our English communications were accurate, concise, and professionally written. In addition to that work, she worked closely with me to further establish my external influence an leadership as an executive working to create my professional website, advising me on thought leadership positioning, and working with me to prepare me for speaking opportunities.

I have always put a premium on dedication among my team members and Amber never failed to show her dedication to our work and mission.

Amber is a delight to work with and I recommend her for any position.”

Quintin Williams, Program Officer, Justice Reform. The Joyce Foundation

“In her role as communications and content manager at Heartland Alliance Amber brought a spark of creativity to the non-profit space wherein, I worked. She always pushed me to be thinking about many kinds of media to engage our audience and effectively promote our message. More than creativity with digital and other forms of media, Amber brought creativity to problem solving in the space. There were many occasions where Amber helped me navigate touchy internal situations wherein it required a certain amount of finesse and skill to bring our goals to light. Lastly, as I was developing the Fully Free Campaign, I owe to her the image that will forever be associated with the movement. Because of her connections we were able to fund just the right image for the campaign. Despite having such a creative spirit and talent, Amber was always willing to learn. As I was the expert on issues of criminal justice, Amber always treated my expertise with honor and respect. Amber never pretended to know something when she did not, she never came across as someone who knew it all. Instead, Amber approached the work with an open heart and mind and always participated in learning opportunities for our team and our organization writ large.”

Melissa Young, Former Senior Director, Research & Policy Division, Heartland Alliance

“While working with Amber I watched her skillfully master our broad anti-poverty and anti-racism issue areas and advance our work through a myriad of communications and media outlets including web, print, digital, and other media. In addition, Amber designed and implemented one of our first systems for tracking our communications and media inputs in order to better understand the efficacy of our efforts and impact.

Amber is a talented writer, strategist, and able to communicate vision to action. In addition to her skills and assets in the communications and digital spaces, Amber is an absolute joy to work with every day. She supported the communications needs of a large team with patience, grace, and humor and contributed so positively to our team and work culture. Amber has terrific coordination skills and demonstrated this every day. Finally, in her role Amber had to juggle multiple priorities and needs and did so with a high level of organization and strong internal communication skills. She is passionate about making the world a better and stronger place through communications and it shows.”

Mailee Garcia, Director of Communications, Heartland Alliance

“As a communications professional, Amber wrote press releases and secured media coverage, helped to set up and promote events, developed messages and marketing materials to inform our audiences, and promoted the work of our organization in additional capacities. She also worked with social media, posting and monitoring accounts on Twitter and Facebook, while providing support for additional platforms. In this capacity, Amber managed the social media presence for one of our largest programs and would respond to audiences, collaborate with partners and foster ongoing conversation with our supporters and community. Amber worked well with her colleagues across the organization. In her role, her time was divided across many responsibilities and two departments, but she balanced competing needs with tactfulness and professionalism. I enjoyed supervising Amber. She was eager to learn and contribute ideas, did an excellent job building our social media efforts, and helped bring engaging and concise content to various audiences and stakeholders.”