About

Ashley Powers is a writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and other outlets, and was anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing 2020.

She often profiles people who, by choice or by chance, have ended up on the outskirts of society. She's written about the hard-won redemption of a teenage extremist, a 36-day manhunt in California redwood country, a plot to kidnap cops in Las Vegas, a fringe movement of renegade sheriffs, and college students teetering on the brink of homelessness. Previously, she was a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

Her work has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Headliner Award, and an honorable mention for the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, among other honors. She was a recipient of New York University's Reporting Award, which funds projects on under-covered topics, and a fellow at Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. 

She’s also an editor at the international news site Global Press Journal, where she works with reporters from Argentina to Zimbabwe, and a co-director of a program at Princeton University for low-income high school students who aspire to become journalists.

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