Ashleigh Contreras, Reporter
Ashleigh Contreras is a student at Fresno City College who is studying journalism and wants to be a screenwriter in the future.
She is 21 years old and was raised and born in Fresno, CA. She enjoys watching movies, her favorite movies of all time are 13 Going on 30, Crazy Stupid Love, and Perks of Being a Wallflower. She is very passionate about writing; she writes poetry in her free time and likes to read about any genre of books. Her favorite books are The Summer I Turned Pretty series and Percy Jackson series and Turtles All the Way Down.
Her favorite food is pasta, any kind of pasta really, and any form of potatoes, like hash browns, French fries, etc. She loves art, and creating art. She was studying studio arts till she decided to change it to journalism due to her passion for writing. 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’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-orientated. 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.”
