Ashley Jonas (she/her) embraces her interdisciplinary background to solve problems, often observing issues through an anthropological lens. She uses her analytical skills to collect, organize, and manage large volumes of client data, and she enjoys the challenge of communicating clear, digestible insights from complex inputs.

At Verdis Group, Ashley has embodied continuous improvement through innovation, collaboration, and process optimization. Recent efforts include transforming data into interactive intuitive decision-making tools via premium dashboards. Her work with the City of Lincoln built on these efforts, as she built a model to project trends in vehicle emissions, laying the groundwork for proactive climate action in the City for decades to come.

Ashley’s growth-minded initiative has led her to study language, culture, and sustainability in Spain and to conduct grant-sponsored research on the environmental, social, and economic variables impacting conservation efforts in Nebraska. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in environmental studies and global studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

Ashley is motivated to curtail the inequities of climate change, such as the fact that those who have contributed least to the climate crisis are facing the greatest consequences. This commitment to environmental justice culminated in her capstone thesis, which critically examines the discourse around climate migration in developing island nations across the Pacific, reflecting her unwavering commitment to equity and advocacy.

Ashley’s Gallup Strengths are Futuristic, Intellection, Input, Focus, and Achiever.