Advising Clients on AI Chatbot Deployment: Privacy, Consumer Protection, and High-Risk Use Cases in 2026

Amber earned her J.D., cum laude, from Howard University School of Law and holds a B.S. from Old Dominion University. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland. She is also a Certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP), credentialed through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Recognized as a Certified AI Governance Professional, Amber is among the practitioners formally credentialed to advise on the governance of artificial intelligence systems. Within Mayer Brown, she holds significant leadership roles, serving as co-chair of the firm's Black Lawyers Affinity Group and co-chair of the firm's Women's Forum. She is also a member of the firm's AI Task Force and its Recruiting Committee, contributing to both the firm's substantive AI capabilities and its talent development.

Amber is actively engaged across the bar and the broader legal community. She serves as Treasurer of the Privacy, Cybersecurity & Technology Section of the National Bar Association and as a Leadership Advisory Committee Member of the National Association of Women Lawyers. She is the founder of Lesbian Lawyers of Color and a member of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association. Her prior service includes board positions with Ms. JD and The Associates' Committee, participation in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity's Pathfinder Program, and a term as Secretary of the LCLD Alumni Executive Council. Amber is a frequent speaker and author on privacy and cybersecurity topics, with recent presentations on the future of children's privacy and on state consumer protection enforcement, and published commentary on developments such as Oklahoma's comprehensive consumer data privacy law and Colorado's evolving AI policy framework. She regularly provides executive and board-level training on incident response, privacy compliance, and children's privacy obligations.

Amber advises clients across the full lifecycle of privacy and cybersecurity risk. On the compliance side, she helps organizations assess and implement programs addressing US state comprehensive privacy laws, CPRA, HIPAA, TCPA, PCI DSS, CAN-SPAM, and GDPR. Her children's privacy work includes designing youth-specific data governance frameworks, building age verification and parental consent mechanisms, and guiding product assessments involving children's data, profiling, and targeted advertising under COPPA, state children's privacy laws, and age-appropriate design requirements. She has guided private equity firms and their portfolio companies through state privacy law compliance and counseled retailers, financial institutions, healthcare companies, and manufacturers on CCPA/CPRA obligations, while also conducting privacy due diligence for clients including major manufacturers and private equity firms. Amber's incident response experience spans deepfakes, business email compromise, and double- and triple-extortion ransomware attacks, guiding clients from investigation and containment through remediation and notification. She has led response efforts for a major fast food chain navigating a nationwide payment card breach, a wire and cable manufacturer facing a double-extortion ransomware attack, a multinational aviation company managing a board-level breach investigation, and a health plan responding to the MOVEit-related breach. She has also conducted dozens of cybersecurity tabletop exercises and preparedness assessments across industries. On the litigation front, Amber has represented one of the largest US credit unions in class-action data breach litigation, defended a multinational technology company in state court matters, and pursued claims against the hackers behind a ransomware attack on a manufacturing client.