In her role as District 3 Freeholder, Ashley currently serves as the Liaison to the Atlantic County Youth Services Commission and Library Advisory Commission. She was recently nominated to the National Association of Counties Human Services and Education Steering Committee for 2019 and renominated for 2020. She is a 2018 New Leaders Council Fellow, as well as serves on their National Advancement team advisory subcommittee.

Ashley is the advisory board chair for the South Jersey Young Dems Black Caucus and in September of 2018 Ashley was named by The Root.com to their 100 influential African Americans of 2018. In 2019, Ashley was chair, organizer, and visionary behind the Inaugural Women’s March in Atlantic City honoring the legacy of Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer. She served on the host/planning committee for the YEO Young Elected Officials Network’s first ever Women’s Conference which brought over 100 young elected women at all levels of government from across the country to NYC in early February for training and networking.

Ashley Bennett graduated Egg Harbor Township High School in 2003. While in high school, Ashley became an Emergency Medical Technician and discovered her passion to serve others. Ashley went on to attend Rutgers University, where she earned a degree in Psychology and a minor in Organizational Leadership. While at Rutgers, Ashley became a Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program Scholar and completed original research as well as presented at the McNair Conference at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She went on to pursue a graduate degree at Georgian Court University, where she earned a Masters in Community Counseling.

Ashley furthered her education by completing a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate University, where she worked in The Forensic Neuropsychology Research as a Research Assistant. During this time she has presented original research at both the Association for Psychological Science and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies National Conferences.

Coverage of Ashley’s race for Freeholder brought inspired a new generation of candidates and elected officials. Ashley has been featured in national and international media outlets like the Fox29 News with Hank Flynn, News One Now with Roland Martin, MSNBC Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC Mitchell Reports with Andrea Mitchell, Daily Show with Trevor Noah, WNYC Sunday Calling with Joan Walsh, MSNBC with Richard Lui, MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, WNYC Brian Lehrer, CNN Erin Burnett Out Front, The View and the Associated Press.