Ashley Lyles is a health and wellness writer with a knack for relaying complex medical jargon to the general public. She earned a master’s degree through New York University's Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program. She also has a bachelor’s degree in professional writing from Michigan State University.

She holds a graduate certificate in medical physiology from the University of Florida College of Medicine and a certificate in media and medicine from Harvard Medical School.

As Miss New York International 2020, Ashley served as an ambassador for the American Heart Association and the Go Red for Women movement.

She was also the 2017 recipient of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's Jason Kahn Fellowship in Medical Journalism. She then served on the Foundation's Women's Heart Health Initiative advisory committee.

Her professional endeavors have taken her to Italy, Spain, Greece, London, Switzerland, Honduras, Cambodia, France, and Ghana.

Her work has appeared in outlets like The New York Times Daily 360, PBS NewsHour, The Huffington Post, Undark, Neurology Today, MedPage Today, Psychology Today, TCTMD, Insider, The Root, Medscape, and Vice, among other publications.