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2008 Graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design
Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California

2008 - 09 Junior Designer

2009 - 12 Contract and Freelance work

2012 - 16 In House Designer at Koskela

2016 - Present Freelance, Contract, Subcontract, Angency work

(Plus raising two small kids!)

Ashley claims San Diego, California as home, but in reality, has moved often her whole life. She lived in Sydney 2012-2023 but now calls the Illawarra home. She has also lived in Seoul, and all over the USA, Germany and South Korea (again).

“I’m always flagging language similarities and differences with my sons, obsessed with native flowers, love baseball games and tacos and think about what “home”, “immigrant” and “community” means to me. Dual citizenship is a huge honour and a great gift to give my kids. It also makes my husband and I feel like we’re in a spy movie when we carry 8 passports through the airport!”

As a sustainability-focused, community-minded person, she is especially interested in working on projects with brands in the fashion, beauty, health, hospitality, food & beverage, interior design & home goods, luxury, and publishing industries that are kind to our planet, and respect all who reside on it.

“I don’t take life too seriously. but I’m an ethically-minded person and deep thinker at my core. I’m a group chat organiser/organizer, girls’ night host, and an “always stop for a chat to the neighbors” type. I’m a quality-over-quantity extrovert that lives for reunion hugs.”

She believes connection, empathy, emotional intelligence, gratitude, and kindness are the only way through life well.

“I’m a minor milestone celebrator 🥳, garden bounty-sharer 🍋, good friend 👋🏼, half-birthday remembered 🧁, birthday-card writer 💌, anecdote teller 📚 (obviously), silly dance-party haver 👯‍♀️, awe-moment seeker 🌅, quality pre-loved kids clothes hunter 🧢, phone down during a meal believer 📵, women’s health advocate 👩‍🎤, oldest child 🤸🏼‍♀️.

I am moved 💗 by a good podcast or poem, try my best to break generational cycles of hurtful language, communication, and attitudes 🫶🏻, and lead with love 💟 the best that I can.”

podcasts, pilates, respectful parenting,
star gazing, camping, board games,
South Korea, dystopian fiction, maps,
nerdy things like colour-coding, geometry productivity apps,
sustainable fashion, brain science and the vagus nerve,
craft beer, western immigration, women’s experiences,
and the wacky adorable things her kids do.