Ashley Houghton serves as FairVote’s Chief Program Officer. Alongside FairVote’s CEO, FairVote Action’s CPO, and the strategy and learning department, Ashley leads the organization in developing and executing its short and long-term programmatic goals. She also manages two departments that make up FairVote’s programs team: communications, and research and policy. Prior to this role, Ashley led the communications team as Communications Director.
As a strategist and campaigner for a decade and a half, Ashley’s background is in leading coalitions, driving crisis communications, and developing multifaceted messaging campaigns. She previously led Amnesty International USA’s domestic refugee and asylum campaign as Tactical Campaigns Manager. She also spent seven years at ReThink Media, a nonprofit media and messaging organization, where she held several positions, including the Managing Director of the Security and Rights Collaborative. In that role, she led in developing, implementing, and supporting effective media and communications outreach and capacity-building strategies across the Security and Rights sector. Altogether, Ashley had a hand in crisis response during every major national security crisis between 2011 and 2019.
Ashley’s time away from work is also focused on strategic planning and campaigning: scheduling joyful weekend adventures, finding misplaced backpacks, and normalizing the benefits of selecting back-up choices as she and her husband raise two small future voters in Maryland.
