Amber D. Dodd (she/her) is an award-winning editor, curator, and journalist whose specialty lies in contextualizing Black America.
A bi-coastal, international writer, Amber’s work also spans throughout other advocacy-based storytelling such as the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Persons (MMIP) campaign for Indigenous tribes in the Pacific Northwest. She was a contributing author of Unbias the News’ “Why Diversity Matters for Journalism,” a global anthology that explores inclusion from 31 journalists around the world.
She owns her own creative brand, blaQplight., a media company that captures authentic Black and queer experiences through education, entertainment, and empowerment.
Amber is also the founding editor of the Spokane Black Stories, an annual series which features Black high schoolers’ art in various mediums, primarily literary, each Black History Month. She also curated a Spectrum Yearbook in “Slice of Spectrum Life,” a mini-feature series detailing the Spokane’s Black queer community. As the associate editor of Howard Magazine, Amber served as guest editor and curated the Fall ’23 issue “Hip-Hop+Howard.”
Amber is also an award-winning nonfiction writer and essayist, rabid SEC football fan, and part-time comedian. She is also an avid Scrabbler and former Latin scholar. With an emphasis on Latin to English translation, semantic word choice, and sentence structures, Amber’s Latin scholarship is a focal point of her copyediting practices.
She is a graduate of Mississippi State University and a Maryland native.
