Amber is an Associate Principal at Ayers Saint Gross and leads the firm's practice in community and campus edge design. Trained as both an architect and planner, she works on projects that bridge across disciplines and scopes from feasibility studies for the Smithsonian Institution to campus master plans for Purdue University to neighborhood vision plans for East Baltimore.
While she enjoys working on a wide variety of project types, Amber has a particular passion for creating thoughtful and sensitive planning and design solutions for communities in need. By sharing her knowledge, she works to elevate client and community voices in crafting the future of their neighborhoods. Amber is particularly proud of her work designing revitalization plans for East Baltimore and the Harlem Park neighborhood, some of the most historically disinvested neighborhoods in Baltimore. Her engagement and master planning efforts in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. have been awarded the Greater Baltimore Committee's Mayors Business Recognition Award and the American Planning Association National Capital Area Chapter's Award for Outstanding Regional or Comprehensive Plan.
Amber leads the firm's People and Culture committee and is passionate about promoting gender and racial equity in the field of architecture. Outside the firm, she serves on the board of the Neighborhood Design Center, the board of the Baltimore Tree Trust, as a member of the Greater Baltimore Committee Economic Development Committee, and as a mentor with the Baltimore Design School. In 2021, Amber was included on the Daily Record's list of "Maryland's Top Women" for her professional achievements, community leadership, and service to others
NoPixAfterDark EP 253: Pamela Wood Politics Reporter for the Baltimore Banner
NoPixAfterDark EP: 252: Lorenzo Bellamy Principal/Founder/CEO of Bellamy Genn
EP 251: CEO CHRIS.SIMON
EP 250: Carlos Raba
EP 249: Artist Emma Childs
NoPixAfterDark EP 248: Pratt Contemporaries Black and White Party 2024 “New Orleans, Mon Amour”
EP 247: Katheryne Womack Principal Consultant for WSI WORLD
NoPixAfterDark Episode 246: Lauren O’Connell Founder of Harry Homeowner
EP 245 : KELLY SCHUIT Owner of The W Home Group of NEXT STEP REALTY
EP 244: Sonja Thorsvik CEO & Host Gigging for Gold
NoPixAfterDark 243: Angela Schaffer Executive Director, The Fund for Education Abroad
EP 242: Kari Dern CEO of Become Spellbound
EP 241: Aaron C. Jones CEO of Bushelers of Baltimore
NOPIXAFTERDARK EP 240: Jaz Erenberg
EP 239: Sonjie DeCaires the CEO of Sonjè Productions.
EP 237: No Pix After Dark Live at the Maryland Cycling Classic
EP 235:U.S.Senator Chris Van Hollen
Baltimore Peninsula ft. MaryAnne Gilmartin
EP 233:No ”Food” Pix After Dark ft Chris Franzoni
EP 232: Kareem AKA Mr. Bake Sweets Queeman
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