Ashley Blazer Biden is an American social worker, activist, philanthropist, and fashion designer. She served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019. She founded the fashion company Livelihood, which partners with the online retailer Gilt Groupe to raise money for community programs.
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Ashley Blazer Biden is an American social worker, activist, philanthropist, and fashion designer. She served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019. She founded the fashion company Livelihood, which partners with the online retailer Gilt Groupe to raise money for community programs focused on eliminating income inequality in the United States. Biden is of English, French, and Irish descent on her father’s side and English, Scottish, and Sicilian descent in her mother’s side. Her father, Joe Biden, is the former vice president of the U.S. and current president-elect. Her mother is educator Jill Biden. She is the half-sister of Hunter Biden and the late Beau Biden, her father’s children from his first marriage to Neilia Hunter Biden. Biden was raised in the Catholic faith and was baptized at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware. In 2014, Biden criticized the death penalty, stating that it is not effective and wastes resources that could go towards victim services and crime prevention. She also got involved in dolphin conservation, inspiring her father to work with Congresswoman Barbara Boxer to write and pass the 1990 Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act.
Biden studied cultural anthropology at Tulane University. She obtained a master’s of social work degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice in 2010. She worked as a social worker in the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families for fifteen years. While working for the department, Biden created programs for youth focusing on juvenile justice, foster care, and mental health. In 2008, she was listed in Delaware Today’s \”40 People to Watch\” for her work in the department. In 2012, she joined the Delaware Centre for Justice as an associate director, focusing on criminal justice reform in the state. She helped establish and run programs and services at the center focused on public education, adult victim services, gun violence, incarcerated women, and community reentry. She implemented a program called SWAGG: Student Warriors Against Guns Against Guns.
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