Kim Ashe is a Clinical Nurse Education Specialist for Adult Acute Care at Novant Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. She earned her BSN in 2013 and her MSN in Nursing Education in 2018, both from Queens University of Charlotte. With a strong passion for nursing education, Ashe specializes in the development and maintenance of continued competencies for nursing professionals. She is also the Education Committee Board Member for the Queen City affiliate of ANPD. She was also the recipient of the ANPD Change Agent award in 2025.

Linda Bub is the regional manger for nursing education and professional development and manager of two CNA training programs for Advocate Health in Milwaukee, Wisc. Her nursing background includes nursing education, geriatrics, and home care. She is also a clinical nurse specialist and is certified in nursing education and geriatrics. She has been a mentor for her organization for NPDs and new leaders. Linda was a mentee in the second cohort of the ANPD Leadership Academy and has been a mentor in the ANPD EBP and LA multiple times. She was recognized with the ANPD Mentor award in 2022.

Amy Hu, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN, is a nursing professional development specialist who leads John Muir Health’s Nurse Residency and Simulation programs. She is currently a participant in the ANPD Leadership Academy, further strengthening her expertise in nursing leadership and professional development. Deeply committed to professional governance, Hu is actively advancing initiatives at John Muir Health to promote professional equity and shared decision making.

Ambra Starr, RN, BSN, has been a nurse for almost 27 years, and for her sake, please believe that has to mean she started her career when she was 12 because she likes that math better. She began her career in neuro ICU and has worked in ICUs, the OR, the cardiovascular OR, ED, and pre-op and recovery. Starr earned her BSN from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

After swearing she would never do education or administration, Starr has been in nursing education in nursing administration at Peterson Health for the last 12 years. Her official title is director of nurse education, which includes leading a team of one organizational nurse educator and six unit-based educators. The team believes that education should be interactive, creative, fun and find the sticky parts of the brain as often as possible. The nursing education team leads new nurse orientation – running several transition-to-practice programs, working with schools of nursing, coordination of all education and competency for nursing, as well as organizational-level development and education as well. She also occasionally guest lectures for local universities. In her role as director, Starr was responsible for designing the mentoring programs in the division of nursing that are actively practiced today – and leads several of them through the transition-to-practice programs.

While her passion is nursing, her heart and love belong to her amazing family which includes her wife, Sam, and their 14-year-old daughter, Kinley, who ensures all free time is taken up with dance, theater and what is a now-blossoming modeling career (much to their chagrin).