Katy Ashe

Overview

Katy Ashe is the co founder and chief design officer of Noora Health a nonprofit that trains marginalized patient families with health skills to improve outcomes and save lives. Katy believes that disenfranchised communities deserve access to the actionable health information they need to improve wellbeing and prevent disease. With a background in engineering scientific research and human centered design she believes that transformative change comes from within communities and just needs help being unleashed. Before Noora Health Katy led a research campaign in the Peruvian Amazon on the devastating environmental and health impacts of illegal gold mining while a researcher at Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University. She has a BS in Environmental Engineering and a MS in Environmental Fluid Mechanics from Stanford University. Katy was recently featured as one of the 30 Social Entrepreneurs Under 30 by Forbes.