{"id":9685,"date":"2017-01-03T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=9685"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:01:44","slug":"mozilla-welcomes-ashley-boyd-vp-of-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2017\/01\/03\/mozilla-welcomes-ashley-boyd-vp-of-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Welcomes Ashley Boyd, VP of Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Movement-building veteran joins the Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/about\/leadership\/\">leadership team<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This month, Ashley Boyd joins Mozilla as VP, Advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley will lead Mozilla&#8217;s work to fuel the open Internet movement and mobilize millions to stand up for a free, open web. Our mission is ambitious: making the health of the Internet a mainstream issue. It is also vital: as centralization, surveillance, exclusion and other online threats proliferate, we need a movement to keep the web a global public resource.<\/p>\n<p>In this role, Ashley will work with other teams within Mozilla, with ally organizations and with digital citizens around the world through advocacy campaigns and public education initiatives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9686\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9686\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-03-at-8.30.20-AM.png\" alt=\"Ashley Boyd, Mozilla's new VP of Advocacy\" width=\"230\" height=\"291\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Boyd, Mozilla&#8217;s new VP of Advocacy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ashley was most recently Vice President &amp; Chief Field Officer for MomsRising, a national grassroots organization in the U.S. As a founding staff member, she was instrumental in building MomsRising into an organization of one million grassroots supporters, 200 partner organizations and over 20 funding partners.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley has over two decades of experience in public interest advocacy, with a specialization in effective uses of technology and public engagement. During her career, she has worked with leading public interest advocacy organizations in the U.S. and India including M&amp;R Strategic Services, the Advocacy Institute, the Self Employed Women\u2019s Association (India) and AmericaSpeaks. She has led multi-state organizing efforts around the issues of health reform, paid family leave, social security reform and the national budget. Ashley has a Master\u2019s Degree in Rhetoric from the University of Maryland, College Park.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley will build on the success of Mozilla&#8217;s advocacy work over the past years. In fall of 2016, Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.changecopyright.org\/\">fought for common-sense copyright reform in the EU<\/a>, creating public education media that engaged over one million citizens and sending hundreds of rebellious selfies to EU Parliament. Earlier in 2016, Mozilla <a href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.mozilla.org\/encrypt\">launched a public education campaign around encryption<\/a> and emerged as a staunch ally of Apple in the company&#8217;s clash with the FBI. Mozilla has also fought for mass surveillance reform, net neutrality and data retention reform.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Ashley!<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ashley-boyd-7a07014\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashleyboyd\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movement-building veteran joins the Mozilla leadership team This month, Ashley Boyd joins Mozilla as VP, Advocacy. Ashley will lead Mozilla&#8217;s work to fuel the open Internet movement and mobilize millions &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2017\/01\/03\/mozilla-welcomes-ashley-boyd-vp-of-advocacy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":9573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,757],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mozilla Welcomes Ashley Boyd, VP of Advocacy - The Mozilla Blog (Archived)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2017\/01\/03\/mozilla-welcomes-ashley-boyd-vp-of-advocacy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Surman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2017\/01\/03\/mozilla-welcomes-ashley-boyd-vp-of-advocacy\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2017\/01\/03\/mozilla-welcomes-ashley-boyd-vp-of-advocacy\/\",\"name\":\"Mozilla Welcomes Ashley Boyd, VP of Advocacy - 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