Amber Stark is an award-winning marketing and communications professional with more than 20 years’ progressive experience managing marketing and internal communications for corporate, higher education, and non-profit organizations. In addition to receiving several Gannett awards for news reporting and feature writing, she has received a national Gold award from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations for internal communications and an Emmy for the BGSU ALICE Training video. Career highlights include managing regional media relations for the movie, “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio,” which starred Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore, and managing communications for the Toledo Waterways Initiative, a $521 million program to prevent overflow into local waterways.

Professional interests include crisis communication, branding, and creative team leadership. She currently serves on the Pemberville Public Libraries Board of Trustees and was a member of the 2020 Bowling Green State University Leadership Academy. She is a former member of the Inspirations Early Learning Center Board of Directors and a former volunteer for Read for Literacy.

Amber earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s degree in marketing and communications from Franklin University, where she was a 2015 Franklin University Leaders Scholar; her thesis was on corporate social responsibility. Amber’s SIOP responsibilities include media relations, social media and the Source.