Ash is President and CEO of ConnectED. He previously worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he served as Senior Vice President since 2022 and Vice President from 2016-2022. While there, in collaboration with the Carnegie President and Board of Directors, he developed two strategic priorities to guide the Foundation’s work over the next decade: (1) improve educational outcomes for marginalized students and (2) address educational inequities that impede economic mobility and exacerbate racial inequality. To address these priorities, Ash developed and launched multi-year national district leadership networks to support systems transformation for scaling engaging and effective instructional designs. He also developed and launched a national improvement-leadership development initiative with eleven higher education institutions and LEA partners designed to strengthen capabilities for solving enduring problems of practice within school systems.