Ashley Dean is currently the Communications & Program Manager for Stanford University’s Program on Food Security and the Environment. She has worked in the environmental management and communications field for close to ten years, primarily in the academic and non-profit sector. She has additional professional experience in expedition management and media relations, and was the Executive Director for an environmental and outdoor education, after-school program in San Francisco.
Ashley holds a master of Environmental Science and Management with a focus in Eco-Entrepreneurship from the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, and a bachelor of arts in Human Biology from Stanford University. After a transformative trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon, she spent her senior year at Stanford conducting research on the role of ecotourism as both a model of sustainable development and as an educational tool for environmental and social change. Over ten years later, she is still actively engaged in this field. She hopes to continually merge her interests in international travel and recreation with her professional pursuits, and to always keep the coast or the mountains in her backyard.
