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Ashlee is an Australian writer, editor and development practitioner currently based in Dili, Timor Leste.
After several years working from Jakarta, Indonesia, and time in Washington DC at the American University School of International Service, Ashlee completed an internationally-focused Master of Public Policy (Development Policy) at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Economics and Government.
She also worked for the ANU’s Development Policy Centre as a researcher.
From January 2012, Ashlee has been based in Timor Leste in a volunteer capacity building role with Plan Timor Leste, working on communications and advocacy.
Ashlee’s professional interests include international development policy, governance, aid, gender, media development and the use of new communications technologies for development and transparency.
During her time in Indonesia, Ashlee worked as a copy editor on the web desk of the Jakarta Globe newspaper, an English-language international daily. Working with a breaking news team, she covered stories as wide-ranging as the Padang and West Java earthquakes, the Jakarta hotel terrorist bombings, the 2009 legislative and presidential elections and the alleged kidnapping of an Indonesian socialite by a Malaysian prince.
In Australia, Ashlee has also worked for the Courier and News Ltd suburban newspapers in Sydney writing local news, features and lifestyle content. Her focus was on local, state and federal government issues and the impact of policy on local communities.
She has also produced current affairs packages, presented and read live news bulletins for 2SERFM and Smoke Radio (UK).
An avid blogger, Ashlee writes about her travels and shares her photography at bettylovesblogging.
To see Ashlee’s CV, click here.
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