In the past, Ashley was tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19. However, she had later recovered from the virus.
For Emily In Paris season 2, Ashley sang an original song titled Mon Soleil released in December 2021.
During her time at university, she had also been heavily involved with the Prison Creative Arts Project, an organization that engages prison inmates into an artistic collaboration with university students.
In 2013, she had been honored with the Willis Patterson Diversity Award.
While studying at the University of Michigan, she had co-founded a student-run organization known as Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop (MPOW) that had aimed at providing performing arts-related educational opportunities to students in southeastern Michigan.
Just 3 months after completing her chemotherapy course and returning to high school, she had been selected to play the lead role of Millie Dillmount in her high school’s production of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.
When she was 15 years old, she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and had to spend nearly 8 months recuperating in a hospital. During this phase, the Make-A-Wish Foundation had helped her and her family visit New York City to attend several Broadway productions including The Lion King, Spring Awakening, and Wicked. Ashley has often credited these experiences as the defining factor in her career choice of becoming a theater actor.
She was drawn towards performing arts from a very young age and her parents had enrolled her in a dance academy when she was just 3 years old. She had also started taking piano lessons at the age of 5. At her high school, she used to participate in both theatre and choir and had also co-founded an a cappella group for girls known as Soulfege.