Ashley Howard

Ashley Howard is the Educational Services & Digital Audience Development Manager at The Oklahoman. Prior to this, they served as the Director of Strategy and Development at Koch Comm from December 2018 to February 2022, overseeing all marketing, development and diversification initiatives.

Ashley has extensive experience in digital marketing, creative and public relations strategy, business development, inbound marketing, sales enablement and CRM implementations, and client relations. Ashley is skilled in responding to RFPs, preparing formal proposals and executing presentations. Ashley is also an expert in facilitating interactive leadership discovery sessions and comprehensive needs assessments.

Throughout their career, Ashley has developed comprehensive marketing strategies for B2C, E-Commerce and B2B focused clients inclusive of public relations, creative services (graphic design, videography, and photography), web services (design and development), social media strategy, digital marketing (SEO, SEM, email marketing, content marketing and programmatic advertising) and measurement strategy (multi-platform attribution, establishing goals through Google Analytics, CRM integration, etc.). Ashley has also managed special projects across a diverse clientele including annual and campaign strategies, branding, website development, collateral development, customer relationship management (CRM) implementations, sales enablement (pitch and presentation development) and other marketing related initiatives.

Ashley is a strategic thinker who excels at leading cross-departmental brainstorming exercises to foster creativity across an organization in order to support the development of

Ashley Howard has a Master's degree in Education, with a focus in Assessment & Measurement, from Ashford University. Ashley also has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Ashford University, and an Associate's degree in Psychology from San Diego Community College District. Ashley is a Certified Grant Funding & Proposal Writer from the University of North Texas at Dallas, and they also have a Professional Development certification from the University of Oklahoma - Price College of Business.

They work with Cyndi Mize - Director of Circulation Distribution, Scott Seco - Single Copy Supervisor, and Javier Nunez - Director of Sales and Logistics. Ashley Howard reports to Eric Wynn, VP, Circulation.