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Ashley Davidson

Communications Director

“There should be no room in your life for regret.”

— Yaa Gyasi

Ashley returned home to Flagstaff and joined the Trust in 2014, excited to put her experience in grassroots organizing, communications, public relations, and social media management to work sharing conservation stories. Prior to the Trust, she worked for the International Rescue Committee and for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and provided research assistance to West Africa researchers in Amnesty International’s Paris office.

She holds an M.A. in international affairs from Sciences Po Paris and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She writes novels in her spare time.

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Interests & hobbies

  • Reading
  • Hiking
  • Learning languages (slowly)
  • Writing novels
  • Quesadillas

Books I love

  • Selected Stories by Alice Munro
  • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  • Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

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