Ashleigh Contreras is a 22 year-old journalism major who was born in Clovis, CA and raised in Fresno, CA. After her senior year was cut short due to COVID, she wasn’t too sure on what she wanted to do after high school. She took a gap year before she decided to go to college. Once she got to college, she was studying studio arts till she realized she wanted to pursue her love for writing. 

The love and passion for writing grew when she decided to change her major to journalism. She wanted to expand her writing more. She loves reading and writing. Her favorite books are Turtles All the Way Down and Beautiful Boy and The Running Dream. She holds those books very close to her heart. One day, she hopes to write a book of her own.

She loves watching movies, her favorite movies are 13 going on 30 and Moonlight and La La Land and Tick, Tick … .BOOM! She also is a huge fan of Marvel. Her favorite Marvel movies are Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spider-man movies as well as Guardians of the Galaxy movies and Deadpool movies. She has probably watched all the Marvel movies about 100 times and the shows. 

 A screenwriter and a director are something she dreams about becoming. Able to create something for people to watch means so much to her. She wants to be able to share something that means something to the world. Art can be anything you create, whether its writing or drawing. She wants to make people feel something with her art.  

One thing is cant live without is her earphones. She always has them while listening to music. She can’t live without her music. Her favorite artists are Drake, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Chappel Roan, Future, Reneé Rapp, Lorde, Sabrina Carpenter and Kanye West. Just to name a few. She listens to a lot of different genres. 

She’s a person with big dreams and goals. She’s the kind of person who wants it, she will go get it. She’s also very family-oriented. Everything she does is to make her family proud. She also just wants to make herself proud and happy. Putting yourself first is something she has always believed in. There is this one saying that Ashleigh reminds herself whenever she is in her head too much, “At the end of the day, all you got is yourself.”