- “We can never get too focused on who we’re fighting against and forget who we’re fighting for”
-Ashley Bell, Civil Society Fellow, Founder and CEO, Ready Finance
At the 2024 Resnick Aspen Action Forum, Ashley Bell, Founder and CEO, Ready Finance and Civil Society Fellow, shared an early life lesson from his father: people are more than the files and labels in front of you. Ashley carried this notion with him throughout his life as a public defender, an entrepreneur, and a federal government appointee, bringing people together across political and cultural divides to address big problems. How? By focusing not on who we’re fighting against, but who we’re fighting for.
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