Ashley Cuthbertson

Ashley Cuthbertson, M.Ed, NBCT (she/her), is a nationally recognized consultant and speaker on culturally responsive instruction and equity in music and arts education.

Ashley serves as the founder and principal consultant of A. Cuthbertson Consulting, a national educational consulting firm committed to shifting the landscape of arts education by helping music and arts educators make culturally responsive and equitable teaching and learning the norm, not the exception.

In this role, she partners with schools, districts, and organizations to ensure their arts educators are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to create equitable program policies, cultivate affirming learning environments, and design culturally responsive curriculum and instruction that is culturally responsive and relevant to the diverse and ever-evolving needs of today’s learners.

Described as an “engaging and charismatic” speaker and consultant, her professional learning programs have been described as “engaging,” “safe,” and that they provide strategies that “will have a positive impact” on students.

Prior to her work as an educational consultant and speaker, Ashley was a dedicated PK-12 general music, choral, and band music educator. Additionally, she was a teacher leader in her school district, and served as an adjunct professor on the faculties of Loyola University Maryland and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Born and raised in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Ashley enjoys attending concerts and shows, trying new restaurants, and traveling to anywhere there is a beach.