Ashley Judd is an author, actor, and social justice humanitarian. She is a leader of the #MeToo movement and a founding member of Time’s Up.
Judd has been nominated twice for both Golden Globe and Emmy Awards and received an Independent Spirit Award for her role in Ruby in Paradise. Over the years, she has demonstrated her range in a variety of genres and proven to be a box office draw.
Judd is a United Nation’s Global Goodwill Ambassador and recently was a Leader in Practice at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She also serves on the Leadership Council at the International Center for Research on Women. She works with several other NGO’s on global public health, and human trafficking.
Judd is a passionate advocate for the right of every girl and boy to enter adulthood safely and empowered, and to ending all forms of sexual and gender-based violence.
Her advocacy has taken her to the slums, brothels, schools, hospices, drop-in centres and clinics across Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America. Judd’s experience ranges from attending an obstetric fistula replacement surgery in eastern Congo to advocating to governments and the public sector on behalf of her partnerships and making the data-based argument for gender specific responses.
She authored the New York Times bestselling book “All That Is Bitter & Sweet” and was featured in the documentary “A Path Appears,” about sex trafficking and domestic slavery in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a proud American and citizen of the world who is committed to doing her part to help the global family progress toward wellness and peace.
When not speaking on panels and conferences, writing, and traveling the world, Ashley enjoys an adventurous and outdoorsy life with her partner.
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