The Rev. Ashley Horan (she/her) serves as the Vice President for Programs and Ministries, overseeing and coordinating the UUA’s primary programs and ministries in alignment with the UUA’s mission and values. Ashley oversees the major programmatic staff groups doing outward-facing work with UUA constituents, including the Ministries and Faith Development, Congregational Life (regional staff), and Organizing Strategy/Side With Love staff teams.

Prior to serving in this role, Ashley served as the UUA’s Organizing Strategy Director from 2019-2024, leading the Organizing Strategy Team that holds Side With Love and its related campaigns. Before working at the UUA, Ashley served as the Executive Director of the Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance and the Curriculum Developer for Beloved Conversations. She also served UU congregations in Joliet, IL and Fond du Lac, WI.

Ashley is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University. She lives in Minneapolis, MN with her partner, the Rev. Karen Hutt, and their two youngest children—Aspen, 11, and Eden, 6.