Ashley Kirsner

Ashley Kirsner is the founder and director of Skip the Small Talk™, a social impact startup focused on combatting the loneliness epidemic through nationwide, in-person events. Skip the Small Talk™ events are based on Kirsner’s social and clinical psychology research at Cornell University, the Harvard Decision Science Lab, the Harvard Business School, the University of Miami, the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Lab at Boston University, and McLean Hospital. The success of Kirsner’s events have been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe, and on the Today show and on NPR.