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Ashley Olafsen
Ashley Olafsen is a University Innovation Fellow and is designing her own major, and double majoring in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She is passionate about self esteem, body image, media representation, mental health, and all things that hold back teenagers from reaching their full potential. She has created and delivered numerous self confidence workshops to girls all over New England, as well as run two successful 5-day summer programs. As the co-founder of MOVE, she has reached thousands of girls all over the world. Furthermore, she was a speaker at the 2014 MASSCue Conference in Foxboro, MA and a speaker at the 2015 CoSN International Symposium in Atlanta, GA. She has also given a TEDx on why media diversity is important. In addition to being a published author (Survival of the Prettiest: The Gender, Mental Health, and Sexualization Crisis as told by a Teenager), she also creates YouTube videos and writes for the Huffington Post.
She looks forward to publishing her second book, on entrepreneurship, as well as expanding the work of MOVE.
Related Links
Our priorities page: http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of...
Our University page: http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst
