Meet The Ashlees
About Us
Kyle and Aeriel Ashlee are married life partners, best friends, and co-social justice journeyers. Deeply passionate about racial justice and gender equity, together they provide empowering keynotes and training sessions for colleges, universities, nonprofits, and other organizations around the world. Tapping into the wisdom in the room, the Ashlees bring a dynamic and energizing facilitation style to their work.
Our Bios
The Ashlees are award-winning educators, authors, and facilitators. They met at a NASPA Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education conference in 2011 and were married in 2013. Together, Aeriel and Kyle co-founded Ashlee Consulting in 2014 with the vision of foregrounding story-sharing and self-work in social justice journeying. In recognition of their work, the Ashlees received the 2016 ACPA Coalition for Social Justice Educators Outstanding Educator, Mentor, and Trainer Award.
Aeriel A. Ashlee
Aeriel is a scholar-activist passionate about racial justice and womxn of color leadership empowerment. She has nine years of student affairs and higher education experience, having previously served as Assistant Dean/Advisor to Asian Students at Dartmouth College and as Program Coordinator in the Center for Multicultural Equity & Access at Georgetown University. Additionally, Aeriel has created, directed, and facilitated award-winning intergroup dialogue programs across the United States and in Switzerland and Singapore. Her passion areas include supporting transracial adoptees in college, advocating for womxn of color graduate students in higher education, and critical and poststructural approaches to racial justice. Aeriel’s story-centered facilitation style make her a highly dynamic educator, speaker, and social justice facilitator. Aeriel earned her B.A. from the University of Minnesota and her M.Ed. from the University of Maryland. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies in Educational Leadership at Miami University.
Kyle C. Ashlee
Kyle has worked in student affairs and higher education for nine years. He has previously served as the Director of Orientation at Franklin University in Switzerland and the Interim Director of the Center for Gender and Student Engagement at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Throughout his career, he has discovered that engaging in social justice and anti-racism work with populations who hold privileged identities -like himself- is his calling. Kyle specializes in working with those who hold dominant identities, unpacking whiteness and toxic masculinity. He has international consulting experience having worked in places like Switzerland, Poland, the Dominican Republic, and the United Arab Emirates on issues of intercultural communication, international leadership development, and global service learning. Kyle brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to his work as an educator, author, and facilitator. Kyle earned his B.S. from the University of Michigan and his M.S. from Colorado State University. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in Educational Leadership at Miami University.
