Ashley Tedesco is an award-winning student journalist from Fordham University who focuses most of her writing on religious beats, as a student of journalism, Jewish studies, and creative writing. She is currently serving her second year on the editorial board of The Fordham Observer as opinions co-editor. Ashley is also the managing editor of The Jewish Voice at NYU and a regular contributor to New Voices Magazine, Offshoot Magazine, and Jewcy Magazine, where she recently served as an editorial intern. Ashley was employed for the summer by The Beachcomber. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading, crocheting, toying with point-and-shoot photography, wandering Manhattan and Brooklyn, and exploring Judaism.