An interior designer with 12 years of experience, Ashly works across all ABA’s markets (community, education, and healthcare) to deliver interiors that inclusively welcome people with their beauty, functionality, accessibility, and sustainability. She is particularly adept at looking beyond colors, materials, and furnishings to consider the story of a space and how it influences people’s experience. Her commitment to projects that positively influence communities is not only reflected in projects such as the new Aptos Branch Library, a personally meaningful project to replace the building her mom took her to when she was a child, but in her volunteer work with the International Interior Design Association’s Northern California Chapter. As a board member and director of its Silicon Valley City Center, she works with interior design professionals like herself to give back to communities through design, innovation, technology, and sustainability. She also teaches interior design at San José State University.
But there is more to Ashly than design. A buoyant people-person, she is the driving force behind ABA’s Fun Committee and a champion for connecting staff in a spirit of camaraderie. As Mary Poppins puts it, “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and ‘snap’, the job’s a game.”
