Ashley Edwards

Ashley Edwards is the Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of MindRight, a tech nonprofit providing personalized mental health coaching to youth of color. Ashley holds a Master of Business Administration & Master of Education from Stanford University. She graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor’s in Economics where she was awarded the Yale Franciscus Fellowship in Entrepreneurship. Prior to Stanford, Ashley served as founding Director of Operations of one of the first “blended learning” charter schools in Newark, NJ. She developed the school’s operations and data management system from launch to 300+ students. She has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur through her work at MindRight which was recognized by Forbes as one of the top 30 innovations of the next century.