Hi, hello, welcome!

I’m Ashley Milhollin, but most people just call me “Mil.”

I’m an award-winning, award-losing, award-judging Creative Director with experience across a wide range of brands and categories—from Target and Taco Bell to tuna and toilet paper. (And plenty more that don’t alliterate quite as nicely: cars, booze, posh British grocery stores, massive fintech brands, femtech start-ups, iconic video game franchises and nerdy streaming platforms, to name a few.)

Once upon a time, I was writing before I even knew all my letters. Just ask my dad, who let me fill his legal pads with endless looping cursive “L’s” before sitting through my dramatic retellings of whatever epics I’d scribbled on the page. (Sorry about having to explain those in important meetings, Dad.)

Now I’m not afraid to roll up my sleeves, burn the midnight oil or use idioms in the “About Me” part of my website. Can’t help it. I love words!

…Except passwords.

In fact, I’d probably use something stupid simple and not creative at all—like “PASSWORD”—for anything password protected on my site.

Professionally, I’m so over cynicism and genuinely believe advertising can have a positive role in the world. And at the barest of minimums, we are honor-bound to make it not suck.

Feel the same? Let’s chat. Even if I’m not available, I probably know some incredible folks I can set you up with. Also, I just like making new friends.

ashley.milhollin@gmail.com

P.S. If you’re a pro-choice org in need of some creative help, I love taking on that kind of work when I can. Drop me a line. My day rate for you is a cool $0.00. (Yes, free!) I can’t promise I’ll always have bandwidth, but I’d love to connect and see what’s possible.

Oh, you want to know why people call me Mil?

WELL… my job in college had like, eight Ashleys on staff and they had to figure out a way to differentiate us and it just kinda stuck and now it’s a long, weird thing to explain because I don’t really care if you call me Ashley except a lot of people professionally don’t know me that way and so if you ever ask, “Hey, did you like working with Ashley?” they may be like, “Who tf is that? I don’t know her.” and then I’ll look like a big ol’ giant liar when, really, it was just a misunderstanding about a short version of my last name that someone gave me in 2008 that now I have to write about on my professional portfolio.  

I also sometimes drop in run-on sentences for dramatic effect.