Ashley previously served as a project manager with The Capacity Collective and as assistant director for community engagement in the Elma Lewis Center. They earned their master of science in critical ethnic and community studies from University of Massachusetts Boston and their bachelor of science in political communications from Emerson College. Ashley is a community organizer working at the intersections of immigrant justice and prison abolition. They believe that when we ground our work in the principles of solidarity praxis and emergent strategy, data can serve to challenge power and uplift community.