Triple Board Residency Program

Ashley was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. She attended Brown University through the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME), a combined eight-year program where she earned her degree in Cognitive Neuroscience. Ashley was a member of Casa Machado (Brown's Latinx program house) and worked with The Samaritans of RI as a suicide hotline volunteer for several years. In medical school, she volunteered as a crisis counselor with Crisis Text Line and was a member of the Latinx Medical Student Association. Ashley received the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's Medical Student Fellowship and spent a summer during medical school researching irritability in very young children at Bradley Hospital's Pediatric Partial Hospital Program. She was the recipient of the 2020 Christopher Benedick, MD, Child Psychiatry Award. She is passionate about mentoring underrepresented minority students and working with underserved communities. Ashley is interested in integrated primary care and increasing access to mental health services. Outside of medicine, Ashley is an avid reader who also enjoys scrapbooking, trying new restaurants, staying active with Zumba, and binge watching all eight Harry Potter movies!