Ash is a 2020 graduate of Maranacook High School and a 2024 graduate of the University of Maine where she studied Child Development and Family Relations with minors in Education and Music. She spent the past two years teaching PreK at the Katherine M. Durst Learning Center and her summers as a camp counselor at Camp Beech Cliff in Mt. Desert, ME. During her time at UMaine, she worked as a Research Assistant with the Servant Heart Research Collaborative’s Attachment Theory Team. In this, she worked to provide family-strengthening training on Attachment Theory to caregivers internationally. Through her studies and work experience, she has become deeply passionate about increasing accessibility to quality education and services for children and families in Maine.