Ashley Carter

Ashley and Jasmine are Co-Founders and Directors of EatWell Exchange, Inc. EatWell Exchange, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that teaches low socioeconomic communities how to grow their own food, cook foods in a healthier manner and become more educated about their cultural foods. They find ways to help you continue to eat cultural foods but in a healthier manner, there’s no need to abandon cultural foods and swap them out for westernized alternatives. Together they teach communities how to make sustainable changes furthermore respecting and maintaining their culture. Over the past 3 years, they have educated over 4,010 people and fed over 2,137 including traveling to Grand Goave, Haiti for a mission trip in 2018 and initiating a community garden there that allows over 65 families to grow and harvest their own food. After learning more about the health disparities that communities of color were facing, it became their mission to decrease negative health outcomes using foods that are familiar and beneficial to them.