Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
2024-2025 Obama Foundation USA Leader

Founding Partner, 2892 Miles To Go
Louisville, Kentucky
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair is a National Geographic Explorer and a founding partner of 2892 Miles To Go, an education organization that provides opportunities for youth storytellers to collaborate with local leaders, educators, advocates, and changemakers to reclaim community histories and stories together through narrative and geospatial tools. Prior to her current work, she served as the inaugural educator-in-residence with the Kentucky Department of Education, where she organized educators and legislators across differing viewpoints to make education reform more representative. She has written for The Atlantic and The Washington Post and published a book about community-led change.
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- Building the Center
Join other Obama alumni in coming together to support the naming of the Water Garden at the Obama Presidential Center in honor of the life and legacy of President Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham—as a gift for the President’s 61st birthday.
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Watch President Obama share his vision for the Obama Presidential Center during a surprise visit with supporters and stakeholders—a vision for a public space that will honor history, help revitalize the South Side, and connect people throughout the communi
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