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Ashley Willis is GitHub’s Senior Director of Developer Relations, where she focuses on open source, community, and developer advocacy. Her work combines leadership, accessibility, and inclusion, with an emphasis on making technology more human and building resilient teams.

Leadership and Advocacy

  • Leads developer relations at GitHub.
  • Advocates for developers and open-source contributors.
  • Amplifies underrepresented voices in technology.

Community and Accessibility

  • Builds supportive, inclusive spaces for contributors.
  • Focuses on creating tools that genuinely serve their users.
  • Works at the intersection of leadership, advocacy, and accessibility.

Overall, Willis’s career centers on strengthening developer communities and making technology more inclusive, accessible, and human.