Ambar is an award-winning transportation planner, oral historian, and story strategist with a decade of experience as a consultant, advocate, and researcher.
Her core belief that transportation is more than its utility fuels her praxis. This belief inspires her writing which sits at the nexus of infrastructure, connection, and culture.
When it comes to complicated systems - eco, social, or transpo - she couples her intuition with strategic analyses to remove blocks and bridge gaps, allowing processes, people, and creativity to flow.
Sourcing her knowledge from the land, her family, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, of which she is a graduate, Ambar knows how to get to the root of any problem.
Through her achievements, projects, and writing, it’s evident Ambar understands what moves us.
Her choice transportation mode is story.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science, History, Technology & Society, Concentration Civil Engineering
Columbia University, Master of Arts, Oral History, Concentration Family Business Management & Conflict
Certifications
Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science, History, Technology & Society, Concentration Civil Engineering
Columbia University, Master of Arts, Oral History, Concentration Family Business Management & Conflict
Certifications
PsychoHairapy - equips community members with the skills to administer culturally-informed emotional health first aid
League Certified Bicycle Instructor (LCI) - focuses on teaching and demonstration cycling techniques used with future students both on the road and in the classroom.