Ashley Hollenbeck is Senior Research Associate since April 2020 and Executive Director in the Planning Office at the Institute for Village Studies, USA. She holds an MA in Public Administration from Portland State University, USA, and has published on water management and green growth and on asset-based community development in Central Vietnam in the Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Hiroshima Jogakuin University. Her work centres on community-centered, interdisciplinary service learning.