Biographical Info

Amber is a sustainability expert who oversees Mason’s institutional sustainability assessment and reporting efforts, like AASHE STARS. She also advises and partners with internal/external stakeholders in Auxiliary and Business Services (ABS), Facilities, Purchasing, Transportation, and peer institutions to improve sustainability best practice, circularity, and resource efficiency in campus operations, contracts, purchasing, data reporting, policy, planning, and standards development. She has secured more than $350,000 in grants and investments to support innovative initiatives to ‘green’ Mason and has provided strategic input as a committee member on Mason RFPs and contract negotiations worth over $300 million. Amber has represented Mason as a speaker national conferences and in 2020, she authored the National Wildlife Federation’s collegiate waste reduction certification program as a board member. In 2022, she co-led a Mason task force with ABS that earned Virginia’s prestigious Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award.

Amber, who has over nine years of experience, began her career as a research associate at the Alliance to Save Energy. She has consulted on projects for clients including the U.S. government, international organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. She has taught at Mason and acted as faculty liaison and coordinator for its Sustainability LLC. Her continuing education includes certificates in Data Visualization (University of Washington, 2024), Carbon Footprinting (University of New Hampshire, 2023), and Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership (Harvard University, 2021). In 2021, she was one of only 18 individuals selected for the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) Executive Energy Leadership Academy.