Ashley is an NAACP Image Award-winning podcast producer. She’s produced with DCP Entertainment, ESSENCE, Warner Music Group’s Interval Presents, xoNecole/Will Packer Media, Spotify, and others. She currently leads production on shows like Holding Court with Eboni K. Williams (winner of the 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News and Information Podcast) and The Toure Show.
An audiobook narrator and voice artist, Ashley most recently narrates DéLana R.A. Dameron’s touching literary fiction debut, Redwood Court (a February 2024 Reese’s Book Club pick!). She is part of the 2024 Penguin Random House Audio Narrator Mentorship Program, an initiative for actors new to audiobooks to work with PRH producers to strengthen their craft and gain industry knowledge. Ashley also co-stars in the Spotify podcast Cents & the City and can be heard on Midcentury Modern Media’s Unmasked Season 2.
Ashley’s short fiction has been published in midnight & indigo: Eighteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers (Issue 9) and the forthcoming 49.1 issue of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora Journal published by Illinois State University. Ashley is currently making a short story collection among other exciting work.
She watches Turner Classic Movies religiously, is a plant mom of 31, and can’t wait to do her Eartha Kitt impression at the least opportune moment.
Cheers to having nothing to prove. Cheers to making things we’re proud of, in good company. And here’s to making waves that ripple far beyond our time.
Photo credit: Brian W. Fraser