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Ashley Simmons is a special education teacher
for Brainerd Public Schools in Brainerd, Minnesota.
She earned her undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Special Education from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2012, and her graduate degree in Special Education at Bemidji State University 2020, with emphases in Emotional Behavioral Disorders and
Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Ashley lives in Baxter, Minnesota with her six-year-old son, William.