Ashley Zarach

Director of Communications

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Ashley Zarach is the Director of Communications for the TN Department of Children’s Services. Ashley has been with DCS since June 2023. Before joining the Department, Ashley worked as a journalist for over 15 years. She spent 11 years at WKRN-TV, the ABC News affiliate in Nashville, serving as Senior Executive Producer. During her time at WKRN, Ashley covered some of Tennessee’s biggest news stories. In 2021, she received an Emmy Award for her work on a documentary about the historic March 3, 2020 tornado outbreak in Middle TN. Ashley is a Chicago native and a graduate of Northern Illinois University where she studied Broadcast Journalism. She briefly lived in Colorado Springs, CO before moving to Nashville in 2012. Ashley is a boy mom and is passionate about the DCS mission to act in the best interest of children and youth across Tennessee.