Ashley is a managing director of Amare Public Affairs. She comes to Amare with 20 years of experience in winning Democratic and progressive political and issue-based campaigns. Alongside senior roles including serving as political director and Interim Executive Director for the Georgia Democratic Party, McBride led a $25 Million independent expenditure focused on field and communications in Pennsylvania in 2018 and 2020. Their efforts contributed to the wins of Democratic Governor Tom Wolf and Senator Bob Casey as well as four women to the Congressional delegation and delivering the battleground state for Biden in 2020.

Alongside these efforts, McBride is a highly sought after strategist, known for developing successful outreach campaigns in communities of color. She has served in senior roles on many the biggest state and national efforts in the US — from the New Georgia Project which supported the wins of Warnock and Ossuff, Organizing Together 2020 and voting registration efforts in communities of color across the Northeast.

Ashley is a Georgia native, the mother of a new college graduate and splits her time between Washington, DC and Philadelphia.