about

The Ash behind emdashery is Ashley Sheppard—a loud-laughing, left-handed, word-nerd cat lady. She brings curiosity, creativity and more than 20 years of agency experience to every project. With emdashery, you get a brain stuffed with a multitude of industry sectors, integrated marketing strategy, B2B and B2C perspectives, insightful questions, song lyrics and puns. A strategist, writer, thinker, teacher and hugger, Ashley loves the thrill of problem solving and chasing down a good idea. In the immortal words of noted wordsmith Vanilla Ice, “If you’ve got a problem, yo, I’ll solve it.”

CREDENTIALS: Bachelor of Arts from Berry College and a Master of Fine Arts from University of North Carolina Wilmington

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Hosting an Elvis-themed blood drive, recreating Truman Capote’s Black & White Ball, naming a Terrapin Beer for the Georgia Theatre restoration, moving that bus for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and writing an award-winning ebook about bed bugs for Orkin

CURIOSITIES: Cemeteries, space exploration, music, romance novels, Olympic sports, The Golden Girls and mental health

COLLECTIONS: Pottery, flower photography, teacups, barrel-aged beers, Elvis ephemera, pencils and Delta SkyMiles for trips to Europe

CATS: Clementine and Lulabelle