Amberly’s Biography

Amberly Carter, M.Ed. (she/her) is a cultural technologist with more than 15 years of experience advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice through education, technology, and storytelling. She is the Founder & CEO of Hello Ambi, LLC, a company dedicated to ethical storytelling, archival stewardship, and digital truth-telling.

Amberly is also the Interim Executive Director of the Till Institute, where she leads initiatives that continue the legacy of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley by promoting truth, justice, and preservation through research, education, and community empowerment. Her own family roots are deeply intertwined with this history her great-grandmother and Alma Spearman (Emmett’s grandmother and Mamie’s mother), were sisters, connecting Amberly directly to a lineage of truth-telling, resilience, and justice advocacy.

Through her signature program, Platform to Justice, Amberly helps families who have lost loved ones to violence as well as social justice organizations design, manage, and optimize systems for their memorial foundations. The program transforms grief into sustainable legacy work grounded in ethics, transparency, and organizational strength.

Amberly also leads the Tech-for-Truth Framework, her original methodology for using technology as a tool for accountability, memory preservation, and cultural repair and the foundation of her acclaimed Tech for Truth Podcast, where she convenes innovators in media, tech, and culture to explore how truth can thrive in the digital age. A defining part of her work is Miriam, the AI archival agent Amberly designed to help families and communities document and share their own histories. Miriam empowers users to become stewards of their own narratives helping them organize, preserve, and publish personal and collective archives rooted in consent, dignity, and truth.

As an independent publisher, Amberly has created and managed multiple cultural blogs, authored books, and continues to publish essays on her Substack, where she writes about storytelling ethics, collective memory, and the intersection of culture and technology. Amberly’s work sits at the crossroads of culture, communication, and conscience. 

Whether through her leadership at the Till Institute, her publishing and podcasting platforms, or her consulting work through Hello Ambi, her mission remains constant: to protect memory, honor legacy, and advance truth.

She is married to Minister Jason Mills, the Senior Minister of Indiana Avenue Church of Christ in Topeka, Kansas. Together, they are dedicated to service, faith, and building communities that embody both truth and transformation.