Ashley is an award-winning director and producer based in Seattle, Washington. She began making films in 2009 when she joined San Francisco film collective Scary Cow and has worked in casting, directing and producing films, commercials and music videos in San Francisco, Los Angeles, NYC and beyond. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and The New School (NYC) with a Master of Arts in Media Studies.

Recent short films directed by Ashley include rural horror SLUSH (2025), action thriller VOLITION (2023) and female revenge horror DIABLA (2019). Her work has screened at dozens of premier festivals around the globe including Fantasia, FilmQuest, Overlook and Seattle International Film Festival, earning 20+ awards including the Golden Skull for “Best Short Film” at Morbido Film Festival, “Programmer’s Pick” at Adirondack Film Festival, “Best of Fest” at Boston Underground and “Best Director” at Catalina Film Festival among others.

As producer, she's recently wrapped production on several films and shows including THE SHIFT with Cosmic Pomegranate, AMERICAN MORNING with Richard Schiff, ALL HAIL BETH for BRIC TV, MOUTHPIECE featuring Jason Sudeikis, Max Clark's LODESTAR starring James McCaffrey (2020 Nashville Film Festival “Audience Award for Narrative Short”) and Emily Cheeger’s HOLY WOMAN, set in Hasidic Brooklyn, which premiered at the 2020 Toronto Jewish Film Festival and earned the 1st annual Lishma Prize for Best Short. She is also the Supervising Producer on History Channel’s top-rated shows The Proof is Out There and History’s Most Shocking with A+E Factual Studios.

In the commercial realm, Ashley has worked with clients such as TOM FORD, ESTEE LAUDER, NIKE, BUD LIGHT and LAURA MERCIER on various projects as Post Producer and Production Manager including Bud Light Dive Bar Tour with Post Malone, Fat Joe and Sublime and Nike Training Club.

Her work has received over 6M+ views on YouTube and premiered in Times Square. She’s currently developing feature drama PUNJABI FAMILY DINNER about a Trinidadian woman’s experience at a dinner with her new husband’s eccentric Punjabi family, alongside director Jaselle Martino and writer Jagjiwan Sohal. She is also writing her first feature script — an intimate psychological horror set in the rural Pacific Northwest region.