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Ashley Glass, Emcee

Our Celebrate Babies Emcee, Ashley Glass, anchors "Today on 5" on weekdays and produces regular, in-depth reports across all WPTV platforms.

Ashley hit the ground running when she joined WPTV in 2022. She covered the destruction of Hurricane Ian in southwest Florida and the midterm elections focused on the pulse of voters. She reported live from the Treasure Coast in the very moments Hurricane Nicole made landfall. She covered the Florida execution of a man convicted of murder decades prior and shared compelling stories from family and friends of the victims in the WPTV true crime special "Bad Things Can Happen to Good People."



Throughout her two decades as a journalist, Ashley has covered many significant news events across Florida, including the Surfside condo collapse, the Gulf oil spill and recovery, the Casey Anthony trial, the final launch of Shuttle Discovery and the case against George Zimmerman. As a mother, Ashley is also an advocate for children in our community and beginning during the pandemic, Ashley has been the emcee for several of our Lead the Fight events, bringing attention to the profound impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma.

The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Childhood trauma isn't something that you just get over as you grow up.

In the absence of positive, buffering relationships, ACEs can have long-term effects on the developing brain and body, including the immune system and genetic regulation. Understanding ACEs and toxic stress is critical to understanding the risk childhood trauma may pose to families, communities, and society.

To create lasting solutions, we must understand the root causes.

“Twenty years of medical research has shown that childhood adversity literally gets under our skin, changing people in ways that can endure in their bodies for decades. It can tip a child’s developmental trajectory and affect physiology. It can trigger chronic inflammation and hormonal changes that can last a lifetime. It can alter the way DNA is read and how cells replicate, and it can dramatically increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes – even Alzheimer’s.”

– Nadine Burke Harris, M.D.

Online PACEs Toolkit

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