ABOUT

Amber is a reporter, video journalist and masterful storyteller. As a senior video editor and general assignment reporter at The Washington Post, she tells visual stories and takes on ambitious projects across almost every department.

In November 2020, Amber served as the lead reporter in Philadelphia for the presidential election. She spent the week interviewing voters and lawmakers, watching mail-in ballots being counted at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, filming altercations between opposing supporters, and recording celebrations outside city hall with hundreds of people in the street. 

As a multi-media journalist, Amber uses her wide-ranging creative skills to engage audiences with fresh narratives across digital, print and social platforms. Amber is a forward-thinking trend-caster who is constantly in tune with the ever-changing media landscape. Her love of covering Internet culture, the influencers who shape it, viral moments and the impact social media trends have on communities have frequently been featured as The Post’s most read stories. In 2017, when Amber was working the overnight shift, her enterprise story on the NYC exotic dancer strike which chronicled Black strippers going on strike after experiencing unfair conditions inside clubs in the Bronx and Queens was made into an episode on HBO’s “Vice.” Amber’s cover story in the Sunday Business section, discussed the unique ways beauty professionals were shifting their businesses in the wake of covid-19. She found one makeup artist who baked and mixed her expired makeup products to create canvas artwork to sell and interviewed YouTube skincare guru Hyram Yarbo, who has over 4 million subscribers, for the story. 

In addition to reporting social issues stories, Amber has in-depth experience covering criminal justice and race. In 2019, Amber documented three Baltimore men get released and exonerated after spending 36 years in prison. During the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Amber reported how the movement could help HBCUs as they were still struggling with a financial crisis after declining enrollment. 

Prior to joining The Post, Amber worked at HuffPost as an associate video editor in the Politics department. In that role, she covered the 2014 midterm elections, travelled with Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 presidential primaries and reported from the Democratic National Convention. Her final story was on former-Rep. Donna Edwards, who was a rising Black politician, leaving Washington to podcast in a RV. 

As a military brat, Amber spent most of her childhood living in different states and countries. She is a proud community college graduate and an alum of the University of Maryland where she studied History and minored in U.S. Latino/a Studies. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and in 2020 was selected as an IWMF Gwen Ifill Fellow.