Ashley Winning is the Vice President of Research and Evaluation at Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath), and oversees EMPath’s new initiative to pair economic mobility coaching with guaranteed income (Newton Thrive). Trained as a Social Epidemiologist, with a focus on the social determinants of health, Ashley has close to two decades of quantitative and qualitative research experience. She earned a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Emory University. As a Julius B. Richmond Fellow at the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, Ashley studied the ways in which early childhood experiences become biologically embedded and are associated with health and well-being across the life course. As a Harvard post-doctoral research fellow, Ashley engaged in National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) research on the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular disease among women. Some of Ashley’s previous leadership and evaluation experiences include managing four Child Study Center labs at Emory University, leading a mental health needs assessment in the Atlanta refugee community, and co-developing, facilitating, and evaluating a mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral-therapy depression intervention (Project UPLIFT) that has been disseminated across the USA.

Ashley has co-authored numerous academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters. She was awarded the 2016 William W. Parmley Young Author Achievement Award for her publication, “Psychological distress across the life course and cardiometabolic risk”, in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Ashley currently serves on the National Advisory Council for Room to Grow, and on the Community Development Research Advisory Council for The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.