Amber Amaya on Clubhouse

Bio

💻 Consultant and trainer specializing in strategic storytelling, multimedia production and community-driven research

✨Centering clarity and collaboration

🇲🇽 First-gen Latina navigating the academic experience

✌🏽USC Annenberg grad student ‘22

🔬Research focuses: community media, storytelling, communication, strategic communications, rural communities, and immigrant communities

🎥 I’ve designed and launched several start-up youth media projects in California, and now I support communities across the country to uplift their stories in meaningful and authentic ways through multimedia storytelling.

💡Background in the nonprofit sector: board member, program manager, program design, campaign management, grant writing, fundraising, partnership management, community health and equity, restorative justice practices, community agreements

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☀️ she/her/ella

🌵Coachella, CA and deeply rooted in mi comunidad (on Cahuilla land)

☕️ Catch me with my cafecito todo los días

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🎉 Open to connecting about:
- Communication strategies
- Storytelling (personal, community-led, multimedia)
- Content creation
- Writing
- Ending systemic racism
- Equity and inclusion
- First-gen experiences and resources
- Research areas
- Community wellness and mental health
- Community agreements for courageous spaces
- Food and travel

📓Willing to share my list of ‘Amber’s Amazing Recommendations’ with anyone visiting the Coachella Valley, Palm Springs, and Joshua Tree areas.

🖤 Here to listen, learn, build community, and make new connections.