Ashleigh is the former Director of Congressional Relations at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Based in Washington, Black is a member of the United Nations HIV and Nutrition Inter-Agency Task Team, a co-chair of the Kansas Governor’s Humanitarian Commission, and a member of the President’s Advisory Board at EARTH University in Costa Rica.
Before joining the Council, Black served as Associate Director at the George Washington University Center for Global Health and taught courses in George Washington University’s Master’s in Public Health program. She previously worked in the policy division of the Rome-based United Nations World Food Program, as a senior policy analyst at the Global Health Council, and as a legislative aide on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Black earned a BA in Journalism and Spanish Literature at the University of Kansas and a Master’s degree in State Management and Humanitarian Affairs at the Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza in Rome.
