Amber M. Randolph

Amber M. Randolph joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in 2024 as its first associate vice president, New Jersey. Amber’s work in RWJF’s home state is dedicated to advancing health equity by addressing structural racism as a root cause of inequities. Under Amber’s leadership, RWJF’s New Jersey department is devoted to advancing comprehensive, equity-promoting policies to ensure everyone has a fair and just opportunity to live their healthiest life possible.

Before RWJF, Amber served as senior vice chancellor of Administration, Economic Development, and chief financial officer at Rutgers University-Newark. Since 2019, Amber oversaw budget, financial management, student accounting, and strategic planning with a focus on higher education as a pathway to social mobility. There, she managed the university’s $445 million operating budget, working strategically and collaboratively to allocate resources to ensure equitable student outcomes. In 2022, Amber developed the university’s digital equity and inclusion program focused on digital inclusion for formerly incarcerated and other structurally excluded communities in Newark.

Prior, Amber was a vice president at Deutsche Bank's Community Development Finance Group where she helped develop and manage a more than $800 million community development and social impact investment portfolio to advance the organization’s corporate social responsibility mission. Before joining the bank, Amber developed creative capital solutions for Federally Qualified Health Centers at the Primary Care Development Corporation.

Earlier in her career, Amber managed operations at the Low Income Investment Fund’s Southern California office in support of affordable housing, educational facilities, and other community development projects and worked for a community-based real estate developer on supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness.

As a social justice and equity-focused leader, Amber’s career has centered on activating capital, including philanthropy, to transform communities through affordable housing, equitable education facilities, small business solutions, and adequate and affordable primary care. Amber serves as a volunteer member of the FJC Foundation, a donor advised fund and Salvation Army Newark and was previously a volunteer board member of the City Parks Foundation, Greater Newark Conservancy, Newark Downtown District and the Newark Regional Business Partnership.

Amber holds a B.A. in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and attended the Urban Planning graduate program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

A California native, Amber resides in Maplewood, N.J. with her husband and three children.