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Amber Oliver
Senior Program Lead
Walton Family Foundation

Amber Oliver is Senior Program Lead, Education at the Walton Family Foundation. At WFF, she leads the Foundation’s work to provide educators with the teaching tools, supports, and strategies to ensure they, and their students, achieve their full potential. Prior to WFF, Amber was Managing Director of the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund, a collaboration between Robin Hood, Overdeck Family Foundation and Siegel Family Endowment to unlock the potential of technology to transform learning for students experiencing poverty. Previously, Amber was the COO of GripTape, where she helped build a strategy to put 1M youth in the driver’s seat of their own learning. Amber also served as the VP of Globaloria, now Proto and part of Carnegie Learning, which helped thousands of students become knowledge-producers as they learned to design and code their own educational games. Amber has also held positions at the United Nations Secretariat, The World Bank, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and led efforts in Bangladesh, France, India, Niger and Senegal.