Ashley Davenport grew up asking questions and never stopped.

She grew up on a corn and soybean farm in northern Indiana, raising her own pigs for 4-H. A broadcast career pulled at her from an early age, and that curiosity carried her into journalism, where she married her broadcast degree with her agriculture background — working for national broadcast outlets, interviewing and booking guests ranging from local farmers to national lawmakers, and covering stories at every level, from local to national. Along the way, she learned how to take complex topics and condense them into messages that connect with audiences and inform them.

Eventually, her path led her into corporate communications, spending several years as an embedded communications professional inside a 700-person agricultural company, partnering directly with executives and teams across business units.

Davenport Strategies is where that same curiosity and clear communication go to work — media and corporate experience, in service of businesses and organizations that need to communicate clearly with their audiences.

She lives in central Michigan with her family. She enjoys culinary activities; reading; watching the Chicago Bears and Purdue basketball; traveling around Michigan; and most recently, going on the antique tractor circuit with her brother.