Ashley abercrombie
Ashley Abercrombie is a speaker and writer, whose work has been featured in various magazines and digital outlets, including Darling, OprahMag.com, Relevant, and Grit and Virtue. She is the author of Love Is the Resistance: Learn to Disagree, Resolve the Conflicts You've Been Avoiding, and Create Real Change and Rise of the Truth Teller: Own Your Story, Tell it Like it is, and Live with Holy Gumption, and her YouVersion devotional, Finding God in the Hard Places, has been completed by over 250,000 people. Ashley is the co-host, alongside Tiffany Bluhm, of the hilarious and helpful podcast — Why Tho.
For more than 15 years, she has worked in non-profit spaces, leading faith-based initiatives, serving as a prison chaplain and pastor, and speaking at conferences, churches, and events. Ashley has an unrelenting passion for justice, particularly anti-human trafficking and mass incarceration initiatives, and serves as the Executive Board Chair of Treasures, a non-profit that reaches and supports women in the sex industry, and victims of sexual exploitation. Ashley and her husband, Cody officiate a lot of weddings, leading couples through premarital counseling, and are developing a curriculum and course to help people prepare for marriage.
Born and raised in the Southeast of America, Ashley has called Los Angeles and Manhattan home, so she’s got a little southern, east coast, west coast twang. Ashley currently resides in Los Angeles, raising two boys by the pool, with her husband and beloved Nespresso machine.
Topics Include
Past Engagements
The Change Makers: A conversation of Race, Faith and Culture at the Langston Hughes House
She is Free Conference, New York City
NYACK College + Praxis Forums
Expression 58, Los Angeles
Salvation Army
Travel Info
“We live in a world of ‘fake’. Nothing is as it seems but this is the season where we must come clean by airing our dirty laundry that has never been placed in the washing machine of His grace. Ashley encourages us to face our humanity head on and show our ugly as this is the only true path to freedom. May we all develop a new level of transparency and vulnerability which will create deeper bonds with one another, instead of the bondage that results from pretending we are perfect.”
“In a world hiding behind a veneer of perfection, she makes the most broken topics beautiful.”
“Her vulnerability, authenticity, straight-shooting wisdom, and humor will help guide you into making peace with yourself and your story, while igniting you to do the same for others. I have the privilege of knowing Ashley and my goodness, that woman is the real deal. Her passion for God and people, and her pursuit of kingdom justice are astounding and contagious.”
“I simply love Ashley and believe in her unique voice in the day and age we’re living in.”