Katy Ashe Email & Phone Number

La Pointe, WI, US

California, Rwanda & Lake Superior

Oakland, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• YLabs is a multidisciplinary team of physicians, designers, economists, developers, public health professionals and educators. We bring a unique mix of human-centered design, adolescent health, economic and health.
• As a Senior Designer I work hand-in-hand with youth, communities, and our partners to understand community perspectives, build and test prototypes, and help develop strategies for implementation andscale-up of.
• Provide design leadership to a multi-disciplinary project team throughout all stages of the design process;
• Provide technical expertise in design strategy, design research, and service design to the wider YLabs team and our partners;
• Support the development of the design team, design charter, and design tools and processesfor design excellence across projects;

San Francisco Bay Area; Bangalore, India

• Developed innovative education and certification program to train patient family members to be active caregivers in the post-surgical hospitalization period in order to improve continuity of care and improve health.
• Manage operations in India & US market, including hiring talent, day-to-day operations, strategy, product & service design, and fundraising

Madre De Dios, Peru; Stanford, California

• Design, coordinate and manage team of researchers on groundbreaking work about the environmental, health and social impacts of wildcat mining in the Peruvian Amazon.
• Lead consortium of Peruvian NGOs in the field, coordinate statewide health campaign, train and mobilize local workers.
• Organize strategic research press conferences for high impact decision makers and public outreach.
• Author scholarly publications, journalistic coverage in the popular press, grant writing and donor outreach reports.

Bangalore, India; Stanford, California, US

• Developed innovative education and certification program to train patient family members to be active caregivers in the post-surgical hospitalization period for the largest cardiac hospital in the world.
• Piloted program on the ground to be implemented in 100+ hospitals in low-resource settings in India over the next 5 years.

Stanford, CA

• Covered the scientific and environmental beat for original research fresh off the press at Stanford University.

Stanford, CA

• Teaching Assistant Positions:
• Conservation and Development Dilemmas in the Amazon
• Managing Sustainable Building Projects
• Wetlands and Watersheds: Introductory Graduate Hydrology
• Environmental Chemistry Laboratory

San Francisco Bay Area

• Authored policy briefs, generated literature reviews, and edited environmental science reports published by NRDC.
• Managed the NRDC response to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and conducted data analysis on the specifics of the proposals.

Stanford, California

• Strategically plan the trajectory and goals of the organization as a voice in on the committee.
• Coordinated and actively participate in public and private programming, seminars and other high-level speaking events.
• Coordinated initial website design, user experience, resource management, communications and newsletters to members.

Master Of Science (Ms), Environmental Engineering (Environmental Fluid Mechanics And Hydrology)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Environmental Engineering