WBUR is pleased to welcome Ashton Harding as a new Senior Leadership Gift Officer. Ashton joins WBUR from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she worked as a Leadership Giving Officer. At MIT, Ashton identified, cultivated, solicited, and stewarded prospects and donors with the capacity to make gifts of $100,000 and more to the Institute. Additionally, Ashton collaborated with deans, academic heads, faculty, and ambassadors across departments to ensure a coordinated approach to fundraising and relationship management.

In her new role as Senior Leadership Gift Officer, Ashton will report to the Director of Development and work closely with the CEO to manage a portfolio of leadership annual fund and campaign gifts with an emphasis on five-, six- and seven-figure donors. Further, Ashton will identify and cultivate prospective donors and develop solicitation and stewardship strategies in coordination with WBUR’s development team.

Ashton is excited to bring her love for WBUR’s journalism and programming to the team.

About WBUR

WBUR is Boston’s NPR and a jewel in the public media crown — producing exceptional journalism on-air, online, on demand and in real life. This trusted and beloved editorial institution has one of the strongest local newsrooms in the country, with a team of journalists covering the most consequential issues of our time — with originality, sophistication and depth. Beyond its powerful local footprint, WBUR reaches 7 million weekly listeners on NPR stations across the country with two national programs, On Point and Here & Now. WBUR is also a pioneering podcaster, produces critically acclaimed shows such as Endless Thread, Anything for Selena and Circle Round. For more information on WBUR, please visit https://www.wbur.org/.