About

Ashley Stevens is a creative director, designer, and educator based in New York City. She believes in combining strategy with imagination to create impactful work. 

Ashley is a hands-on creative director, designer, and optimistic mentor who strives to create environments for collaboration and creativity within her teams and throughout all phases of work. As a creative director, she leads and works collaboratively across teams of designers, strategists, and copywriters to create strategic insights and brand solutions for new and existing consumer and B2B companies, as well as nonprofit organizations. 

She is passionate about creative leadership and design education and has been an adjunct faculty member at leading institutions: Pratt Institute, Parsons BFA Communication Design, and Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Executive Education. She has served on the thesis defense committee at SVA MFA Designer as Entrepreneur, where she also holds an MFA.

Ashley’s work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, PRINT Regional Design Annual, GD USA, The Daily Heller, Fast Company, and CompostModern; and has also been published in Fingerprint No. 2 and Teaching Graphic Design. Her nonprofit initiative, The Ah Project, was a recipient of a Sappi: Ideas that Matter grant.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and daughter.

If you’d like to work together, please email hello@worksbyashley.com.