Over the last eight years, Ashley Etemadi has worked as a management consultant at Accenture New York, a Fellow at a company builder and venture capital firm in Colombia, and as an operations leader at Toptal, the largest global network of vetted freelance talent, where she helped build their first service offering in the business consulting space, Toptal Finance. In her free time, she co-facilitates inquiry- and discussion-based learning settings for the personal and social development of displaced Middle Eastern university students. She holds an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a B.A. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies and a B.S. in Operations & Information Management (with a concentration in Decision Processes) from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.