Ashton Marra

Ashton Marra is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Reporting on Addiction, a collaborative project working to train professional and student journalists in solutions-focused journalism methods that help break cycles of stigma often perpetuated through media coverage of our communities.

Ashton is also a teaching associate professor in the West Virginia University Reed School of Media and Communications, where she teaches broadcast, writing, investigative and community-engaged journalism courses, and is the executive editor of 100 Days in Appalachia, a national Edward R. Murrow award-winning publication. There, she oversees the work of a team of editors, contributors and reporters across Appalachia to create content by Appalachians for Appalachians.