PA-01: Ashley Ehasz (D)
Ashley Ehasz is a U.S. Army Veteran and Apache helicopter pilot.
She grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, and at the age of 17 with a waiver in hand, she joined the Army, seeing that as her best option to afford her college education. If elected, she would be the first woman serving in Congress to have graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Upon graduating West Point, she was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant within the U.S. Army Aviation branch. Her first duty station was Fort Rucker, Alabama, where she attended flight school. While there, she trained to become an AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter pilot, and graduated in January 2012 as the only woman in her Apache class.
After her service, Ehasz used her G.I. bill to get her master’s degree from the University of Oxford. During the pandemic, Ashley worked as a policy writer and project coordinator to implement the CARES Act for county government, and now serves as a government and public service sector consultant.
“For the first time in decades, students, workers, families, and retirees are worse off than the generation before them. They are unable to pay for childcare, find work that offers a livable wage, or afford prescription drug prices,” Ehasz says.
The above information was sourced from the candidate’s website.
