Ashley is the Graham Gund Architect for the Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  She provides broad oversight over the conservation and preservation of the architecture and landscapes of the Trust’s twenty-seven historic sites.  She works to ensure the timely, practical, and appropriate delivery of services for those structures and their surroundings.

Ashley was a founding and tenured professor at the Clemson University/College of Charleston Graduate Program for Historic Preservation in Charleston, SC and previous to her academic career, she was in private preservation practice in Washington DC (Oehrlein & Associates Architects) and in Virginia (Kapp & Robbins Architects) and worked for 5 years as Assistant Architect for Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village between her degrees at the University of Virginia Architecture School, and the University of Notre Dame Graduate Architecture School.

Ashley was the 2015 Chair of the Historic Resources Committee of the AIA, she serves on the Rubenstein Initiative Advisory Board at Montpelier, the Preservation Easement Committee at the National Trust, and the Senate Curatorial Board of the United States Senate.