Ashley Ortiz
Deputy Director
Ashley Ortiz is RMEOC's Deputy Director. She has a background of more than 15 years in entrepreneurial business support with a passion for an equitable economy. Her previous work includes cooperative business development with the Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives in the Bay Area and work as a baker-owner at Arizmendi Bakery in San Rafael. Ashley co-founded the L.A. Co-op Lab, has taught classes about labor/power dynamics in worker-owned cooperatives, and participated in start.coop’s business accelerator program designed to empower entrepreneurs to build transformative, scalable, cooperatively-owned businesses. Ashley earned her bachelors degree in Psychology at the University of Colorado and holds an M.A. in Urban Sustainability focused on social and economic justice from Antioch University in Los Angeles.