A lifelong enthusiast of most everything, Ashley's insatiable curiosity has led her to discover the joys of pickling , scavenger hunts, the ukulele, meditation, folk music, and flying trapeze, to name a few. In her more tranquil moments, Ashley loves nothing more than curling up with a book (science-fiction), a giant mug of tea (jasmine), and some chocolate (as dark as she can find). Now that she and her family have moved to the Upper Valley, Ashley is looking forward to expanding her extracurricular repertoire to include snowshoeing, sugaring, and finding new and delicious ways to appreciate the bounty of her blueberry bushes.
Ashley brings to Dartmouth's Center for Social Impact an extensive history of experiential learning, program management, evaluation, and nonprofit administration. Prior to accepting her current position, Ashley was the Director of Learning and Evaluation at More than Words, a nonprofit social enterprise headquartered in Boston. There, she managed organizational outcomes, collaborated with various stakeholders, provided strategic direction for growth, and monitored the efficacy of programming across two sites. Before that, she managed an experiential learning program for gang-involved teens throughout greater Boston.
Outside of her professional life, Ashley has demonstrated a similar passion for service learning through her volunteer work teaching emotional literacy and mindfulness inside Massachusetts prisons, as a Hospice volunteer, and during her time in North Carolina where she taught youth developmentally-appropriate ways of seeking help from abuse. In other words, a hallmark of both her professional and personal lives for the past 15+ years has been skillfully managing experiential programming with young adults while dedicating herself to the wisdom that comes from compassionate engagement with the wider world.
Ashley completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at Duke University and graduated Summa cum Laude with her B.A. from Trinity University in Sociology and French. When not engaging in one of the aforementioned activities, Ashley can be found frolicking in a park with her young son or playing board games with her husband.