A second-year medical student at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish in December 2018. Throughout her undergraduate career, she was involved in health disparities research focused on developing and implementing a culturally tailored childhood obesity intervention in the Latinx community. As the daughter of a Honduran immigrant, Ashley is extremely interested in researching health disparities affecting the Latinx community and studying the effects that the current pandemic will have on Latin American countries. Ashley is working on the Latin America region for The Global SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance System-Policy Persistence and Transmission project in the Middle East and North Africa.