Ashley Priore, a junior English and political science major in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, was recently announced as a recipient of the 2021 Women in Toys (WIT) Foundation Scholarship Program grant.

The grant is given to deserving young women seeking undergraduate degrees in business, design, engineering, entrepreneurial studies and other industry-related programs.

Priore is president and CEO of Queen’s Gambit, a nonprofit organization that uses chess to impact communities, empower young people and solve society's biggest obstacles through strategy. Priore started the organization prior to her enrollment at Pitt to teach chess to people of all ages and seek inclusion in a male-dominated sport. The U.S. Chess Federation ranks her in the top 1,500 chess players in the country.