Ashley Biden likes to stay out of the public spotlight. But the president’s daughter will enter it on Monday evening when she introduces her father at the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago.
Who is the president’s elusive daughter? Here’s everything you need to know about Ashley Biden.
Who is Ashley Biden?
Ashley Biden, 43, is a social worker from Wilmington, Delaware, where she has worked in mental health and family services for most of her professional life.
She worked for the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families before becoming director of the Delaware Center for Justice, a nonprofit organization that provides social services to Delaware residents affected by the criminal justice system.
In 2019, she resigned from the Delaware Center for Justice to work on her father’s campaign.
According to a 2023 profile in Elle, Ashley Biden is currently pursuing a doctorate in clinical social work at the University of Pennsylvania. She hopes to open a wellness space for traumatized women.
Who is Ashley Biden’s mother?
First Lady Jill Biden is the mother of Ashley Biden. Ashley Biden is her mother’s only child and the only child between the First Lady and the President.
The 73-year-old First Lady is a former teacher. She was Second Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Who are President Joe Biden’s other children?
President Joe Biden has four children. Two of them, Hunter and Ashley Biden, are still alive today.
In 1972, Joe Biden lost his then wife Neilia and his young child Naomi in a car accident. Beau Biden, then three years old, survived the accident. In 2015, Beau Biden died of brain cancer during his father’s second term as Vice President.
Is Ashley Biden married?
In 2012, she married Howard Krein, an ENT doctor and plastic surgeon from Philadelphia. They have no children together. In 2020, Krein advised the Biden campaign on its coronavirus response while also being criticized for investing in Covid-related startups.
Ashley Biden keeps a low profile
The president’s only daughter has no social media presence and “never wanted to be in the spotlight,” she told Elle magazine in a March 2023 profile.
Ashley Biden spent most of her career away from the national spotlight until she joined her father’s presidential campaign in 2019.
Ashley Biden made national headlines in 2020 when a woman stole Biden’s diary from a Florida home and sold it to the far-right media group Project Veritas.
Who stole Ashley Biden’s diary?
In the summer of 2020, Florida native Aimee Harris stole Ashley Biden’s diary and other personal items and sold them to right-wing news source Project Veritas for $20,000.
According to reporting by Axios, the text was a “recovery diary” from her time in rehab in Florida in 2019.
In April, Harris pleaded guilty to stealing and selling Biden’s diary. Harris was sentenced to one month in prison and three months of house arrest, the Associated Press reported.
When will Ashley Biden speak?
Exact times have not yet been determined.
Ashley Biden will take the stage after her mother, Jill Biden. She will introduce her father.
President Joe Biden will speak sometime after 9:30 p.m. tonight. He will conclude the first day of the convention, which ends at 10:15 p.m.
Speakers on the first night are expected to highlight Joe Biden’s legacy as president as he prepares to leave the White House and pass the torch to Kamala Harris. The theme of the first convention is “For the People.”
