Ashley Clarke, DO

Ashley Clarke is a multiplatform journalist who believes that journalism can be used as a tool to connect people from all walks of life. She is the Audience Engagement Editor for the Center for Public Integrity and previously worked as a production assistant at NBC4. She studied journalism and Arabic at the University of Maryland and is a proud Baltimore native. She is also an active member of the Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture whose vision is to challenge and radically transform the current economic, political, social, and cultural system that impoverishes millions of people.

Dr. Ashley Clarke, DO has a 2.9/5 rating on Healthgrades. Patients say that she takes her time and explains things well. She is affiliated with Aultman Hospital.

He is currently the curatorial director at the Criterion Collection, and formerly the director of film programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He has curated film series at BFI Southbank, the Museum of Modern Art, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, among other venues. He is a contributor to numerous publications on film and culture, including The New York Times, 4Columns, The Guardian, and Sight and Sound, and has been a guest critic on the Robert Elms Show (TV) and The Film Programme (BBC Radio London). His first book, Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (The Critical Press, 2015), was accompanied by a tie-in series at BAM.

He is also an experienced moderator of panels and Q&As, and has given lectures on film programming at NYU, Brooklyn College, Rider University, and BAM. He holds a BA Hons degree in Film Studies and American History from the University of Sussex in the U.K.