She has been leading the EDAMAME workshop since 2014. Ashley has a Delta Certificate from the University of Wisconsin in Teaching-as-Research, and her teaching strategy involves continuous classroom feedback and student-directed, active learning. Ashley is especially smitten with numerical ecology and multivariate analyses, and she speaks fluent R. She often is pondering how rare microbial taxa contribute to their communities. Ashley also loves tea, fermentation, Broadway, her snarky dog, and her awesome toddler (listed in no particular order).