2016 LBJ DC Fellow
Ashley Shew received her Master of Public Affairs (DC Concentration) at the LBJ School. She earned a Master of Arts in applied women’s studies, with a concentration in public policy, from Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Science in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. Ashley’s professional interests and work experience center on social policy, particularly reproductive and sexual health. Prior to her graduate work at the LBJ School, she worked in the Austin nonprofit sector at Charity Dynamics and the Council on At-Risk Youth. Ashley also interned at the Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles Advocacy Project, NEW Leadership of Southern California and the UCLA Ob-Gyn Family Planning Clinic, and she worked as a research assistant at Voting Rights in Indian Country, a summer graduate policy clinic. As part of applied coursework at the LBJ School in geographic information systems (GIS), she mapped the remaining locations of Texas family planning clinics in the wake of restrictive state laws.
She undertook her 2016 Policy Apprenticeship at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (now Power to Decide.)