Building Community Through Kindness & Poetry

A lifelong reader and writer, Ashley was born & raised in Massachusetts. She is an award-winning poet and published author, often snuggled in a blanket, reading Shakespeare and filling notebooks with her thoughts and observations.

Ashley enjoys teaching others and works as a summer counselor, showing campers how fun learning can be. She serves as a peer leader, tutoring others at her high school, and volunteers with an international English learner in Ukraine. 

Offering conversation, friendship, and emotional support to a peer impacted by the war through weekly video sessions, Ashley graciously builds an authentic connection across borders. 

Ashley is especially proud of the weekly poetry column she curates in her local newspaper, and the new international poetry society she is building: www.acrosstheverse.com , feeling both provide others a place for discovery, and the opportunity to connect.

Ashley's service already exceeds 260 hours through her volunteering at her local newspaper, food pantry, and library, as well as helping children living in homeless shelters and foster homes and providing both prevention programming and peer-to-peer crisis support for teens at risk of suicide.  

Ashley enjoys taking courses at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, playing the piano and studied perfume in Los Angeles and New York City. 

Inspired to marry her sense of smell and way with words she built a small online business to share bespoke perfumes and poetry with others, including her self-published book of poetry, "From the Swing".