Amber graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012 before going on to Yale University to earn her law degree. During her time at Carolina, Amber was involved in the Campus Y committee formerly known as Criminal Justice Action and Awareness (CJAA), worked with children imprisoned in Scotland and Ghana as a Morehead-Cain Scholar, and started Beauty Gap, a nonprofit organization that distributes dolls of color around the world, free of charge.

After graduating from UNC, Amber explored voting rights litigation and continued her passion for helping and representing incarcerated children. Today, Amber works as a Fried Frank Civil Rights Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund continuing her fight for racial justice and rights for incarcerated children.

Today, Amber and I are talking about how her time in CJAA influenced her career path, how her current position and work at BeautyGap intersect, and what her global experiences have taught her about what human rights really look like in America.

To learn more about Amber’s work with Beauty Gap or to donate dolls of color to girls across the world, visit http://www.beautygap.org/. You can also watch her TedxUNC talk about Beauty Gap here.

Music: Scratcher by Blue Dot Sessions

Graphics: Britney Hong