Ashley Boldin
Ashley Boldin ran for election to the Hennepin County Commission to represent District 3 in Minnesota. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Boldin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ashley Boldin was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Central Arkansas in 2008. Her career experience includes working as a business intelligence analyst.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Hennepin County, Minnesota (2022)
General election
General election for Hennepin County Commission District 3
Incumbent Marion Greene defeated Ashley Boldin in the general election for Hennepin County Commission District 3 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marion Greene (Nonpartisan) | 69.7 | 43,175 |
 | Ashley Boldin (Nonpartisan)  | 29.6 | 18,338 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 433 | ||
| Total votes: 61,946 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ashley Boldin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Boldin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I was born on a US Naval base to two parents serving in the United States Navy. My father retired from the US Navy and now works for the Veterans Affairs Department and my mother went on to work for and retire from the United States Postal Service (APWU member).
Almost 20 years ago I began my career as a 911 Sheriff's Department Dispatcher just after 9/11, while a freshmen in college. I would go on to graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the University of Central Arkansas after having the experience of working as a Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan Specialist during its initial launch.
I spent the next decade working in every sector of healthcare including for Mayo Clinic, Aetna, and also completed a MCHB Fellowship in Leadership Education in Nuerodevelopmental Disabilities.
In the summer of 2020 I was the permitted Administrator for the Boom Island Park Homeless Encampment in Minneapolis. It was this experience that alerted me to the breakdown in County-City collaboration and overall system issues in addressing unsheltered homelessness.
This combined with my experience in systems innovation, health informatics, and data strategy is is why I want to serve as your County Commissioner. So together we can co-design and transform the way that these systems think and work in order to provide health, safety, and prosperity for all.- Progress moves at the speed of trust. Trust can be defined as the confidence we have in our systems and this can impact how we communicate and the speed and cost of we carry out our work. When there is low public trust, it is harder and more expensive to push forward innovations. We need a level of Commissioner engagement that helps increase and restore public trust in government in order to move forward, together.
- A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all. We have to invest in empathic design and design solutions that are actually solving issues and improving outcomes. Not being "invested in the problem" and continuing to throw money at the same systems that are not producing the outcomes but expecting different results.
- If it ends with people, it begins with people. We can't properly support a population if we don't work to engage them in the process of design.
I'm also passionate about innovation in government and utilizing insights and data to inform policy. At the county level, we especially need to work to improve data governance and the ability to integrate and analyze data across health, human services, and public safety in order to support advances in public safety.
I can engage with and convene diverse people and organizations in order to work collaboratively toward shared goals.
I am a designer at heart and can analyze and explain complex topics from multiple perspectives to varied audiences.
StrengthsFinder 2.0
(1) Relator, (2) Ideation, (3) Futuristic, (4) Learner, (5) Individualization
I loved the ability to get there early and listen to bands doing soundcheck and getting to hear the concerts while I worked. I got to see some of my favorite bands like Bush, 311, and Deftones.
I was so interested in the book that I immediately found a chair and proceeded to read the entire book in a couple of hours.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 11, 2022
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