Ashley Stumvoll

Class of 2021

Ashley Stumvoll is a writer and tropical ecologist based in the subtropical city of Durham, NC. She has spent much of her career conducting ecological fieldwork in the rainforests of countries like Madagascar and Malaysia. After earning her Masters in Tropical Forest Ecology from Imperial College London, Ashley realized that her passion lay in writing about the environment rather than conducting boots-on-the-ground research. Her interests are mainly in biodiversity and habitat loss—issues that are intertwined with supply chains, inequality and policy. In becoming a Fellow in Global Journalism, Ashley hopes to interact with the other Fellows to explore new ideas and unravel the complexities of those interdisciplinary stories. Her goal as a journalist is to bring colour and human elements to global environmental issues that might otherwise seem too big or too far away. When she isn’t writing, Ashley can be found walking her foster dog, attempting to tame her tomato garden, and searching for the perfect bagel recipe.