our team

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BACKGROUND

Ashley is a metric-driven leader with nearly a decade of experience cultivating economic diversification and promoting locations, specializing in business development with experience in urban and rural settings. She has a proven background of working with business and community stakeholders to achieve a measurable vision. Ashley is practiced in regional and organizational strategic planning with executives and staff on behalf of boards of directors, elected officials and private investors, She counsels communities to embrace their unique assets and rise to their own challenges. 

Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently pursing her Master of Business Administration through The University of Texas at San Antonio's Executive MBA program. Ashley has met the requirements to test for the Certified Economic Developer (CEcD) designation through International Economic Development Council. She is an Advisory Board Member of YTexas and a long-time blood donor.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• With a special eye for identifying strategic collaborations, Ashley has pursued and cultivated several key relationships that led to significant outcomes including: Greater San Marcos Partnership's role in the 2016 Texas Way of Urbanism research project led by Joel Kotkin, which resulted in Forbes feature America's Next Great Metropolis is Taking Place in Texas;  South By Southwest Interactive and the Austin Chamber's Austin A-List partnership; and the 2019 SelectUSA Texas delegation bringing together Texas Economic Development Council/Team Texas, Texas Economic Development Corporation, and The Office of Governor Greg Abbott Department of Economic Development and Tourism.