Ashley Hodges was born and educated in rural Ohio in the United States in a family where “my parents never talked about politics at the dinner table”. After achieving a first-class honours degree in advertising and working in media, she began volunteering for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign before becoming a paid staffer. The campaign, she says, “gave me an outlet” for her interest in social issues, something that has endured throughout her career. She came to the UK in 2009 to undertake a masters at the London School of Economics, but ended up settling in the capital, going on to lead a number of UK education initiatives including Speakers for Schools before taking on the chief executive role at Young Citizens last June.
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