Ashley Rock Wylie, shown on the cover of the Fall 2023 issue of NURSING FOR/UM, the alumni magazine of the University of Maryland’s School of Nursing, is a multitasker/entrepreneur. A UMSON alum, she not only works for the JACQUES Initiative, supporting patients and communities affected by HIV and Hepatitis C virus, and as nurse manager of infectious diseases at the UM Medical Center, but she is also owner and chief operating officer of Fleurs d’Ave Floral Boutique in West Baltimore.

Photography by Christopher Myers.