Rev. Ashley comes to UUCS after seven years as a hospice chaplain. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in religion from Barnard College and her MDiv from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She has also worked as a chaplain in New York, Dublin, Ireland, and Philadelphia. Before her work in ministry, Ashley founded the nonprofit organization Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER), devoted to providing college antiviolence activists with grassroots organizing training, and worked in LGBTQ/HIV+ human and civil rights advocacy.
Ashley’s personal spiritual path includes practicing in the Kagyu lineage of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She loves dancing and native plant gardening and lives with her family and a menagerie of animal friends in Maryland.