Ashford

As well as being the founder and president of a NJ non-profit organization, pending 501(c)3, benefitting victims and survivors of domestic, interpersonal and sexual violence (DISV), Angelica “Angie” Ashford holds a BA from Rutgers University in Political Science and Women & Gender Studies with a focus on Social Justice and Public Policy. Angie attended Rutgers as a part-time, non-traditional college student who returned, after 24 years, to finish her baccalaureate degree. Angie is a proud Douglass College and Mary I. Bunting Program alumna.

 

Angie’s professional background includes Executive Assistant to X-level corporate executives, Corporate Operations, Program and Project Management, IT SharePoint Administration, Quality Assurance and Human Resources.

 

In 2011, Angie’s best friend and honorary “sister,” A*, a woman who survived the horrors of a violence filled marriage and over fifteen years of harassment by her ex-husband’s abuse of the Monmouth County legal system, finally succumbed to the degenerative nature of the injuries her ex-husband inflicted on her during their marriage. In her sister’s loving honor and memory, Angie established The A* Foundation, a NJ non-profit, to benefit victims and survivors of domestic, interpersonal and sexual violence. Having been her sister’s care-giver for the last 14 years of her life, Angie witnessed, first hand, the devastating, long-term effect of DISV and now, in the establishment of the A* Foundation, seeks to close the legal loopholes available to domestic abusers and to help transform DISV victims into DISV survivors.

 

Angie’s professional background with Operations and Program Management, in conjunction with her studies in political science and years of social justice activism experience, makes her uniquely qualified to bring a fresh perspective to the Board of Chosen Freeholders and into the process of finding equitable, balanced and fair solutions to the many issues facing Monmouth County residents.

 

Born and raised in the Green Mountains of Vermont, Angie is a 24 year resident of Manalapan and currently has two rescued cats (a charcoal DSH with prominent thumbs and an English Blue). Angie enjoys reading, swimming, gardening, cooking, camping and, especially, taking spontaneous, unplanned drives exploring the towns, shops, and back roads of New Jersey and meeting the people of beautiful Monmouth County.

 

Angie's favorite aspect of New Jersey: Her Diversity of people, cultures and landscapes.

Angie's greatest concerns for Monmouth County: rapid and rampant over-development and its resulting environmental degradation.