Amber Dale Taylor in Houston, TX | The George Washington University - Ohio University

Amber D. Taylor

Female, 39 years old

For more than years, Amber has been providing strategic communications planning and execution for a wide range of clients and organizations, focusing on launching and building communications programs for groups working on education, environmental, research, labor and economic issues. Amber spent more than six years as a Vice President at Tricom Associates where she served as the social media expert for the firm, providing advice and guidance on incorporating social media into all clients' communication plans and campaigns. In addition to managing client work, she provided strategic guidance and all levels of media services including messaging, press release writing, media pitching, social media outreach, development of written and web-based materials and spokesperson training. Some of her clients included Cable in the Classroom, BlueGreen Alliance, Alliance for American Manufacturing and Disney Teacher Awards. She was the director of outreach and media relations for Child Trends, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center where she managed outreach to the media, Congress, the Administration and state and local policymakers. During her four years with Child Trends, Amber established the organization as a national source for the media and policymakers looking for unbiased data and trends on American children. Working closely with researchers, Amber helped translate social science research for media, policymakers and the public, and trained researchers to do the same. Amber also served as an account supervisor at The Rogers Group (now Rogers Rudder Finn) in Los Angeles, providing day-to-day media relations counsel, as well as long-term messaging and media and event planning, for the California Children and Families Commission (First California) and their county commissions. Amber has an M.A. in political management from The George Washington University, and a B.A in political science and a certificate in political communications from Ohio University. Specialties Media relations, social media, website development, video production, strategic communications, social science communications, advocacy communications, jargon "translation," pitching and writing read more ...