Amber Williams, Member At Large

Amber has spent over 15 years as a photojournalist and public affairs professional, but her true talent might be avoiding hills at all costs.  Before moving to East Tennessee in 2022, she lived in Savannah, GA, where it was blissfully flat and her introduction to open water consisted of jellyfish, rip tides, and coughing up salt water.  Somehow, she decided that was fun enough to try a triathlon in 2018 - on a whim, of course - which eventually led her to SwimRun, because why not alternate between two sports in a wetsuit the entire time?  These days, she much prefers Tennessee's rivers, where she doesn't have to guess if she just crossed paths with a potential bull shark.  When she's not educating public affairs professionals or helping build RTMC's community, she's usually coming up with some wildly unnecessary endurance challenge... like swimming nearly five miles to a ghost town, just for fun.