Ashley Killam is a multi-faceted trumpet player, educator, drill designer, entrepreneur, and public speaker. Ashley works as the General Manager for Rising Tide music publishing, the Chamber Music Database Coordinator for the Institute for Composer Diversity, and has spent her post-graduate school years presenting her lecture series, Fanfare for the Unheard, to high schools and colleges across the country. She holds an M.M. in Trumpet Performance from the University of New Mexico and a B.M.E from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ashley currently resides in Radford, Virginia with her husband and corgi puppy, Biscuit.