Name: Ashley Mareno
Group: CDC Group
Age: 26
Occupation: Security Guard at CDC Faciliy, third floor
Family life: Engaged, prior to Awakening.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Weight: 135 pounds
Blood type: A-
Reason for government interest: Security guard with police training.

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Bio: Ashley was born in southern California to an American father and chinese american mother. They moved around a lot due to her mother's job as an executive for a large, global electronic component fabricator. Her father worked miscellaneous jobs as throughout her childhood, but this by no means reflected anything negative about him. Simply put, he was also victim to the constant moving even though he had several associates degrees and ran a landscape company a few times when they were in a place long enough for him to do so.

Throughout her school and formative years, she went through many ebbs and flows as most teens did. Her father wanted her to take karate before taking any kind of social activity, so that was the first real class she took. She excelled in school, then declined, then got more social once she was allowed to play softball and take part in other activities.

Towards the tail end of her high school life, and not long after another move, she decided to go to school for criminal justice. She went to Eastern Tennessee University and while she missed her family and they missed her, she flourished. She was now stable in her location, and in charge of her life and where she went. He college life was not anything atypical, a mix of partying, meeting people, and studying and classes. After her second year, she talked to a recruiter for the CDC and signed up for a program where she essentially added 3 semesters to her classes and signed a contract to work for at least 3 years for the CDC as an armed guard. While it wasn't what she originally wanted to sign up for, the pay was good and there was a chance to either travel (if she so desired) or simply stay put. Can't go wrong with options, right?

She'd worked on the job training while going to school and enjoyed it. After her schooling was done, she was stationed at a CDC facility in Arizona. While it wasn't the most lively spot, it's where she met Matthew Jackson, her future fiance. They dated while working at the same facility, but eventually, she got a chance to move to a facility in Missouri. It was a good move because she got to go, it was a promotion, it was closer to more people, AND a spot in the rotation was opening up in a few months that would allow Matt to join them.

She was set up for a while and working the third floor of the facility when the Awakening happened. She kept in brief contact with Matt but eventually, it was made public to her (with her top secret clearance) that the facility that Matt was working was destroyed when the government bombed an area of Phoenix to attempt to control the outbreak. Not long after, communication with all levels of the government was severed and now they simply waited at the facility, hoping to hear something from someone.