About Ashley

Ashley M. Blanco is an educator and brain-based learning coach serving children, youth, their families, and educators in the Bay Area. She is also the author of A-Maze-In Me and Liberated Through the Love of Christ. She a graduate of School of the Arts High School (class of 2004) in San Francisco. While her portfolio was accepted at a variety of art colleges and universities before she graduated from high school, she decided to pursue to psychology at Howard University (BS, class of 2008) and urban education policy at Brown University (AM, class of 2009).

Ashley continues to expand her horizons as a painting by exploring with the concepts of limiting her color palette to create vibrant images. She prefers to paint using oil paints. She also enjoys filling her sketchbook oil pastels, marker, chalk pastel, ink, and colored pencils.