Ashley Sawyer, JD

Ashley Sawyer currently serves as Senior Attorney at the Advancement Project’s national office.

Prior to joining Girls for Gender Equity, Ashley was a Staff Attorney at Youth Represent. She also served as a Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow at the Education Law Center, where she implemented special education representation on behalf of incarcerated youth, led a project focused on reducing disproportionate school exclusion of black girls in Philadelphia, and played a role in eliminating suspensions for kindergarteners in Philadelphia schools. Ashley was also co-chair of the Legal Rights of Children Committee for the Philadelphia Bar Association and is an alumna of the National Juvenile Justice Network’s Youth Justice Leadership Institute.

Ashley holds a BA in political science from Rutgers University and a JD from Howard University’s School of Law.