Ashley Warner began her love for public safety at the age of fourteen when she became an explorer with Knightdale Public Safety in North Carolina.
She volunteered until she attended Western Carolina University where she received her degree in Criminal Justice. She was a dispatcher for a local non-emergency ambulance company prior to being hired by Raleigh Wake Emergency Communications. She worked at Raleigh Wake for five years where she was a Telecommunicator II and Certified Training Officer.
While at Raleigh Wake 911 she had an Officer Involved Shooting that led to her journey of connecting the pieces for advocating for telecommunicators’ well-being and peer support. Not only did she face her own trial and tribulations, but she is also the spouse of a former First Responder who faced his own trials.Ashley currently works for the Knightdale Police Department as the Evidence Custodian and even though she no longer wears the headset, she continues to advocate and supports all first responders’ well-being and resiliency to keep them moving forward in their careers and lives.
Ashley also serves as the Central Regional Wellness Director for the North Carolina Emergency Number Association (NENA), and a member of the North Carolina Peer Support Team. She recently obtained her practitioner certification in DISC assessment and helps telecommunicators work on self-care action plans.
Ashley’s Summit presentation “Is It Me or Is It Them?” will cover discovering your personality, conversations with others, facing emotions that develop as a first responder, and how to take each day to be better not only for others around you but most importantly, for yourself!