BWFC Council Member Amber Butts is a storyteller, cultural strategist, grief worker, and scholar of delight. Amber’s practices are rooted in building reparative, joyful, and interdependent relationships between the living Earth and all of its beings. Her role as an organizer is guided by expanded, nuanced visions of Blackness that refuse constriction and one-dimensionality. Amber’s favorite freedom practice is observing the ways non-human beings organize to confront power and protect one another. Though her writing has been featured in dozens of publications around the world, her most cherished, sacred identity is Audrie Lowe’s granddaughter. Amber lives in Oakland and is currently at work on an intergenerational speculative fiction novel.