Her most recent job before WISH-TV was at WLWT in Cincinnati. She got her first full-time weather job at KSEQ in Palm Springs, California, where she worked for about seven years. Nothing stopped her.”īrown, who graduated from North Central High School and studied meteorology at Ball State University, has seen her career take her across the country. Part of me isn’t surprised because Ashley was always a go-getter. “Then I realize, oh my God, she’s the first. “Sometimes it doesn’t hit me until they do something nice,” she said of the acknowledgements Brown gets. Now, all these years later, Carey said Brown becoming the first African-American female chief meteorologist in Indianapolis has “excited me to my soul.” Brown went to get her first job at the McDonald’s on 21st Street and Shadeland Avenue when she was 14 years old, “and you would have thought she was running a corporate office,” Carey said. Carey remembered Brown getting exciting about the weather, and she’d have to tell her daughter, “Ashley, I have no idea what a cumulous cloud is.” (For the record, cumulous clouds are those puffy clouds that look rounded at the top.)Ĭarey described her daughter as quiet and goal-oriented as a child. She took Polaroid pictures of the clouds and would name the different types of cloud formations to her mother, Glynnus Carey. “It’s a great feeling.”īrown’s love for the weather began when she was a child. “ she sees that it’s possible because it’s what I do for living,” Brown said of girls who may be looking up to her now.
Last month, Turning Point Schools invited Brown for a surprise award because eighth-grade students who visited WISH-TV in January wanted to acknowledge her as a trailblazer.
That’s probably something Brown will have to get used to now: Minority girls looking for high achievers who made it through the obstacles, especially if they’re interested in broadcast news or meteorology, will almost have to come across Brown.
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“I hope that there’s some little girls out there watching TV and see someone who looks like them.”
Like many African-American “firsts,” Brown registered her feat after seeing there weren’t any African-American females in her position to look up to. Now, at 37 years old, Brown is just that: She became Indianapolis’ first African-American female chief meteorologist when she joined WISH-TV in November 2018.īrown said she didn’t think about it at first, and it wasn’t until people told her later that she realized the milestone she accomplished. She wasn’t exactly sure what, but something. When Ashley Brown was growing up, she would tell her mother she wanted to be the first Black something.
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