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Ashley (Shuyler) Carter, Boston Consulting Group

Ashley (Shuyler) Carter is a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, as well as the founder and former executive director of AfricAid.

Since returning from a photographic safari to Tanzania in 1996, Ashley has dedicated her life to supporting girls’ education across Africa. In 2001, at the age of 16, she formed AfricAid with the mission of supporting girls' education in East Africa. Since that time, she has helped to lead AfricAid’s programmatic strategy and fundraising efforts as AfricAid's former executive director and currently as a member of the board of directors.

Ashley graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2008, with a degree in social studies, focusing on international development. In 2011, Ashley joined the Stanford Graduate School of Business to further her studies in social entrepreneurship and, while there, received a scholarship from the Financial Women of San Francisco organization. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and in 2011 was a recipient of the Denver Business Journal’s prestigious “Forty Under 40” award.