[1] She graduated from Berkeley High School (1982), and received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in Classical Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Archaeology (1986).
Ashman spent a decade in New York and Los Angeles media and entertainment circles, working in operations and administration for literary agents and producers of film, television, and Broadway theatre, and as an online editor and business editor specializing in digital publishing for an Internet industry and ebusiness magazine and trade show arm of a B2B mass media corporation in Silicon Alley.
Along with American writer Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, she is the co-editor of the nonfiction anthology Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Emeryville: Seal Press, 2006).
The anthology, by 29 expatriate women from five nations, spans the length and breadth of Turkey as well as the last four decades as scholars, artists, missionaries, journalists, entrepreneurs and Peace Corps volunteers assimilate into Turkish friendship, neighborhood, wifehood, and motherhood.
She combines her cultural and global sensibilities with her publishing, Internet and media background in her online identity management and digital content marketing work.