About Ashley Maynor

Ashley Maynor is an award-winning documentarian whose films and new media works have been exhibited around the country. Ashley is also engaged with building communities through video partnerships, empowering youth and communities to tell their own stories.

Ashley was born and raised in Tennessee and received her BA in French Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. As a 2004-2005 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, she researched French and Polish literature and film at the University of Michigan. While in Ann Arbor, Ashley served as a programmer and selection committee member for the 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 2005, she received a University Fellowship from Temple University and completed her MFA in Film and Media Arts in May 2008.

In addition to teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia, Ashley has taught workshops as a video facilitator for Scribe Video Center’s Precious Places Project and as a guest artist in the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge’s Artists In Schools program and the Jefferson Center’s INSPIRE program.

Locally, she is the co-founder and program director of Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg Stories Youth Video Workshop. She also organizes Southwest Virginia’s annual Home Movie Day celebration.

Ashley’s creative work, outreach, and research have been supported by the  Southern Humanities Media Fund, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She joined the Virginia Tech Cinema Program in Fall 2008 as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Ashley currently resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. You can reach her via email: ashley[at]preservationprojectfilms[dot]com.