Ashley is a seasoned nonprofit strategy and management consultant, with a focus on strategic planning for family foundations. She is passionate about helping families create philanthropic institutions that make a meaningful impact in the world, and that provide an engaging and rewarding family experience. She also works with families to develop strategies for integrating their philanthropic and wealth utilization activities into their broader enterprise continuity plans.
Herself a family foundation trustee, Ashley has particular expertise working with family foundations to help them clarify and align their social impact and family engagement goals. She helps families define their collective vision for their philanthropy, and then build the structures and programs to support that vision. She applies her deep knowledge of family foundation governance to her consulting work and regularly presents and writes on family philanthropy for the National Center for Family Philanthropy, Exponent Philanthropy, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and regional associations and affinity groups. She was the founding co-chair of the Council on Foundation’s Next Generation Task Force and is also a trainer in the 21/64 Network (in the inaugural class). She recently joined the board of the National Center for Family Philanthropy.
Ashley is a graduate of Stanford University and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her Master’s Degree in Public Policy. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.
