Shena Ashley, PhD

Shena Ashley, PhD, is a social impact executive at Capital One, where she leads the Community Impact and Investment team and serves as President of the Insights Center and Capital One Foundation. Her work focuses on creating equity-enhancing philanthropic strategies using data and evidence. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Georgia Tech and Georgia State University.

Shena is deeply passionate about leveraging data for community change and social good. Her career reflects a strong commitment to democratizing data, supporting nonprofits, and advancing racial equity through research and innovative data tools. No specific personal hobbies are publicly mentioned, but her professional passion for community well-being is a clear driver.

Unique fact: Shena launched the Racial Equity Analytics Lab (REAL) at the Urban Institute to create data tools in response to the lack of racially disaggregated data during the COVID pandemic.