Ashley was born and raised in Edmonds, Washington. She graduated from Stanford University in 2015, where she majored in human biology and economics. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant at the Kaiser Family Foundation supporting research on private insurance, health reform, and the Affordable Care Act. This past summer, she worked at the Senate Finance Committee on a bipartisan package of prescription drug pricing reforms in Medicare and Medicaid. She intends to pursue a public sector career using evidence-based policy to build a better American health care system – one that provides affordable, high-quality care to all Americans. Ashley loves to travel, write, run and eat. She has studied and worked abroad in Oxford, Madagascar and Budapest.