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Ashley Allen Honored as MLS Hometown Hero | Asheville News
Ashley Allen, Asheville’s pioneering literacy advocate, is being honored as an MLS All-Star Hometown Hero — the first from Western North Carolina — with a $30,000 boost for her nonprofit Read to Succeed, designed to close the opportunity gap through science-based reading instruction. Allen, humbled by the recognition, sees it as a platform to spotlight the region’s untapped potential and inspire young Black children to dream big. Her work empowers students to see themselves as capable learners, using literacy as a tool to break cycles of poverty and unlock futures filled with opportunity…
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