Critical multimedia investigations compelling discovery at the crossroads between personal experience, history of place and legal storytelling.
Ashley Hollan is a multijurisdictional attorney with a focus on media and civil rights law, research-based installation artist, critical theorist, poet, storyteller, educator, and activist. She earned her BA in Public Policy and Visual Art/Art History at Duke University, attended law at the University of Denver and graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art (now Willamette University) with her MFA in Visual Studies and MA in Critical Studies. She also completed Music Business MBA coursework, studied art with SACI Italy and studied tropical ecology in Costa Rica with the Duke Talent Identification Program. In 2024, she was admitted to attend the LLM in Indigenous Peoples Law program at the University of Oklahoma and serves as a Visiting Professor of Arts Administration at Elon University. Ashley has been invited to teach, speak, and produce panels at myriad universities and entertainment, academic, legal, and business conferences . Her writing has been published in formal bar association periodicals, academic commentaries and pop culture publications and she has been a part of legal and production teams crafting groundbreaking movies, music, and visual art content.
