Co-Chair, South Region
Ashley Rodriguez is an experienced healthcare leader with over a decade of experience in community & public health. For the last seven years, her focus has been on promoting health access, improving social determinants of health, innovative health solutions in and out of healthcare settings, as well as promoting and driving underserved and community health focused projects across North America. She is currently employed as the Manager of Health Innovation Solutions at McKesson, under their Global Impact Organization. In this role she also drives the McKesson Institute of Community & Health – providing certified Community Health Worker (CHW) courses and continuing education.
She founded and leads the Arlington Latino Resource Coalition, helped found the Texas Association of Promotores and Community Health Workers (TAPCHW), serves on the CoAct North Texas board, serves on the Texas Public Health Association Executive Board, is the Chair Elect for the Hispanic Women’s network of Texas (HWNT), Arlington Chapter, is a Section Counselor for the American Public Health Association, CHW Section, has served on the DFW-CHW Association Board, the Texas DSHS CHW Advisory Committee, has mentored Latin youth in North Texas for both Los Primos Dallas and the HWNT ‘Latinos in Progress’ programs, is a Mujeres de HACE alum, and supports other public health advocacy, policy, and health access efforts nationally.
Ahsley has a real-world public health background – she worked in Community Preparedness, Infectious Disease, Epidemiology where she functioned as a training lead, liaised with county judges, hospitalists, school administrators, and supported critical responses including the Ebola outbreak of 2014. She is an experientially certified CHW and CHW Instructor in Texas, with extensive experience in providing education to CHWs and communities. She completed the Sustainable Business Strategy Certificate from Harvard Business School in 2024. And is currently enrolled in the Cornell Innovation Strategy program.