No problem too heavy for Ashley Farley, '17
At her desk and in the gym, Ashley Farley is drawn to difficulty. She tackles intractable problems within the academic publishing industry in her role at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and her favorite weightlifting move is the notoriously technical and humbling snatch. In both pursuits, progress is incremental. “I love the challenge of the snatch,” she said. “If you improve your lift by, maybe, one pound a year, you’re excited.”This mindset drives Farley’s work at the Gates Foundation, where she advocates for accessible and freely disseminated scholarship. As s