Ashleigh Bowers
Director of Strategy and Operations, Eradicate Hate
2023, 2024, 2025
Ashleigh Bowers serves as Director of Strategy and Operations for Eradicate Hate. In this role, she coordinates strategy development, manages partnerships, and directs operations across the organization.
Prior to joining Eradicate Hate, Bowers served as the program manager of Preventing Targeted Violence for the McCain Institute at Arizona State University. In that role, Bowers led the implementation of violence prevention programming, advanced the Institute’s presence within the field, and managed the development of new initiatives. Bowers also managed the day-to-day operations of the team and nine federal awards.
Originally from Phoenix, Ariz., Bowers is a graduate of Arizona State University where she received a master’s degree in global security and a B.S. in political science with certificates in international studies and political entrepreneurship.
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
