Ashley Causey-Golden is the creator of Afrocentric Montessori and co-founder of Gather Forest School. She has been teaching children since she was 18 years old and still remembers the student who led her to change her major from theater and communications to elementary and special education as a freshman in college.

Ashley has been in traditional learning spaces (public and charter), progressive learning spaces (Reggio Emilia and Montessori), and African-centered learning environments in her 14 years of teaching. Her work with Afrocentric Montessori and Gather is a mixture of a labor of love and an educational home for her children that will keep their blackness seen and whole.

She wears many hats as an entrepreneur, but the ones that stay front and center are mother, wife, teacher, steward, and friend.