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.