Catalyzing Scalable Change
Through Care, Infrastructure,
and Accountability.

Ashley Marie Harrison was born Ashley Marie Green — a name that carries the full weight of East Baltimore's dignity, faith, and three generations of unrecognized community commitment. Her grandparents, Calvin Wallace Green and Joan Elizabeth Presbury Green, met across a Dunbar High School auditorium in September 1952. Both Dunbar Class of 1958. Together for more than 70 years — a love that began in the seventh grade and never wavered.

Calvin Green rose to Deputy Chief of the Fort Meade Fire Department — a Navy veteran who in 1981 served as Officer-in-Charge coordinating the emergency response when John Hinckley Jr. attempted suicide in federal custody after shooting the President. He was a jazz historian, chess player, meticulous reader of non-fiction, and a man who believed in showing up — completely, consistently, without exception. His family called him Daddy Calvin. To Ashley, he was grandfather and father in one: the person who taught her to tie an army knot, hold her place in any room, save money, know her history, and never let fear become the reason for inaction.

Joan Green spent more than six decades doing the quiet, essential work that holds communities together. She established a food co-op in East Baltimore before food equity was a recognized concept. She brought HIV/AIDS education to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in the 1980s when stigma and silence were the prevailing institutional response. She worked across the Veterans Administration, Social Security Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coppin State University, and the Baltimore City Circuit Court — returning always to her East Baltimore community. And she sat with the dying when no family was present, because she believed no one should cross over alone. On January 20, 2026, Joan received a Lifetime Achievement Award on Martin Luther King Day. She turned 86 on May 28, 2026. Long overdue.

Ashley grew up watching two people give everything — without systems behind them, without funding, without recognition — and she took careful notes. She spent nearly a decade inside the Johns Hopkins health system — the same hospital where her grandmother was born — coordinating specialty clinics, supporting ICU and surgical patients, assisting in multidisciplinary rounds, and providing one-on-one care to patients with dementia. She sat with people the way her grandmother had always sat with people: present, steady, unwilling to look away.

In November 2023, she traveled to Asaba, Nigeria with the Voom Foundation — performing finger-stick blood glucose screenings across hundreds of community members, providing HIV screening education and counseling, leading community health education and outreach, and assisting in the operating room during open-heart surgery. She has done this work on two continents. It is the same work. The geography changes. The commitment does not.

Ashley is a mother of six — Sayvion, Serenity, Sanyra Sky, and Seven Green, and Ashlynn and Zuri Harrison — and has a bonus son, Rodney Harrison III. She was formerly a single mother, navigating workforce barriers, educational systems, caregiving, and recovery-centered advocacy simultaneously — and building every lesson from that experience directly into the model she now scales. She is married to Dr. Rodney Harrison Jr., Ed.D. and is currently completing her Bachelor of Science in Health and Human Sciences at Morgan State University.

She built both organizations simultaneously — while working full-time at Hopkins, completing clinical credentials, serving on the Maryland Legal Aid Board of Directors, and raising her family. Not sequentially. At the same time. Because that is what the work required and she had always known how to carry more than the structure said she should.

On March 1, 2023, in a quiet room with just the two of them, Daddy Calvin gave her a final instruction: "Enjoy what you have and just keep moving forward. Keep yourself strong for those children more than anything else." Six days later, on March 7th, Calvin Wallace Green went home. Ashley's birthday is March 8th. He gave her everything he had before he went.

She named her organizations The Green-Harrison Circle — for both families. The Greens, who gave East Baltimore 70+ years of uncompensated community service, across three generations, largely without recognition. The Harrisons — her husband and her children — who are the reason the legacy must be restored, not just remembered. The Circle is the infrastructure that closes the loop between them: the system Calvin and Joan deserved to have, and never did.