Amber Lombardo

Trustee

AIA Component Executive
AIA Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Amber Lombardo is the Executive Director of AIA Memphis and founder of CiV, the Center for Architecture + Design in West Tennessee. She served on the 2024 AIA National Board of Directors and Government Advocacy Committee. Previous service includes 2023 President of the Council of Architectural Component Executives (CACE), 2023 Strategic Council, 2022 Secretary’s Advisory Council, and 2019 Advocacy Capacity Building Group.

 

Lombardo has a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Civil Engineering and Marketing from Mississippi State University. Upon graduation, she worked as a web developer for a variety of organizations (most notably the National Science Foundation Engineer Research Center) in the then-emerging tech industry. In 1999 she began her own web shop and sold it 17 years later after it evolved into an advertising agency, community magazine, art gallery and digital print shop, garnering over 70 industry awards ranging up to international recognition.

 

In 2016 she returned to architecture through grassroots advocacy efforts for the Mississippi Historic Tax Credit and later, in coordination with the National Trust, the Federal Historic Tax Credit. She has presented at several AIA National conferences, at the National Main Street Conference, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Action’s National Preservation Week and more.

 

Recent awards include the 2021 AIA Memphis President’s Award, the 2022 Memphis Business Journal’s Women Who Lead in Architecture, 2023 AIA National Louise Blanchard Bethune Fellow, 2024 AIA National Richard Upjohn Fellow and 2025 Tau Sigma Delta National Architecture Honor Society Silver Medal.