Ashley has spent the last twelve years working in international and domestic film, television and politics.

As a working screenwriter, she has several packaged pilots, features and award winning specs, receiving second round acceptance into the ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship, and receiving many accolades for her 2020 horror feature screenplay, The Cure. She was also hired to write short narrative films for the Something Wicked and Something Wonderful Music Festival. These films were released both to a live audience of more than 200,000 and on Youtube where they received over 150,000 views.

Working in television as a post production coordinator for shows like Psych, Castle and Complications, Ashley managed employees, worked with established directors and forged ties at major studios and networks like ABC Disney, Universal, Fox and USA. On all three of these shows, she worked closely with managers, agents and actors to schedule ADR and had the opportunity to direct ADR for two television episodes.

Ashley's range of experience includes writing and producing an international podcast, co-running a production company (writing and producing commercials for NBC 12 in Richmond, VA), international work (The Australian Sci-Fi Television Pilot Soulkeeper starring Lachlan James), independent films (Sympathetic Details starring the cast of HBO's The Wire), live sports (The Golf Channel) and comedy. For five years, she performed stand up, making regular appearances at Westside Theater and the Comedy Store in LA.

Ashley wrote an Op/Ed that was chosen as Correspondent of the Day for Nov. 1, 2018 Richmond Times–Dispatch, and she currently sits as the Director of Outreach for the Hanover Democratic Committee of Virginia where she regularly addresses audiences of 300-500 people, has done speech rewrites for candidates, and twice appeared on NPR Weekend Edition.

She’s originally from outside of Richmond, Virginia and received her B.A. in Communications and Film at Virginia Tech. She loves her dog, her family, cooking, traveling and going to Gwarbar.