about ashley
Ashley Hales is a storyteller. Through producing, narrating, writing, and researching, Ashley focuses on the surprising and renewing work of the imagination to enable redemptive connections.
Ashley holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. With her husband, she is the co-founder of The Willowbrae Institute, a new think tank researching the intersection of Christianity and the common good in America . She is a Kirby Laing Centre Academic Fellow and advisor to the Board of Covenant College. Ashley hosts the The Cartographers Podcast and is the author of Finding Holy in the Suburbs, A Spacious Life, and the forthcoming Bible study, So That You May Bear Fruit.
For more of her writing, connect on substack, and sign up for the Willowbrae Institute’s newsletter here. Ashley is also sporadically on Instagram or Twitter. If you have questions about writing or podcast consulting, production, or voiceover narration contact her here. For speaking inquiries, use this form.