About the AuthorPatricia Talbot( CEO and Co-Founder )Patti cultivates homegrown changemakers prepared to step into their power and work with others to create the world they want to live in.  Get in touch to find out how you can grow the social changemaker in yourself and those you serve with Blue Roads Changemaker YOU. 

















Today we welcome Dr. Ashley Taylor Repisky,  Director of Education and Lecturer at Rice 360 Institute for Global Health.  I first met Ashley in the summer of 2016 when we traveled together to Malawi for a month of working and learning with and from educators and healthcare workers there. Ashley was working on finding solutions to equipment shortages to address health challenges in hospital settings in and around Zomba while I accompanied university students learning about education in a village school setting.Watch the video of our conversation, listen to the podcast and read the summary below  to learn about Ashley's work as an engineer, an educator and a global health advocate using her unique blend of deeply rooted values and vibrant intelligence to find innovative solutions to health inequities worldwide. 



































Homegrown AshleyBorn and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Ashley Taylor grew up enjoying outdoor activities with her father who helped her understand the connections among nature and humanity.   She credits her family, her faith and a “deeply rooted humility” for helping her to look with wonder at the value each person can bring into any given situation as we rely upon each other to make things happen. 




































I am a person of the mountain born and bred….. And I think growing up in Appalachia really shaped me in some very profound ways.