is an interdisciplinary artist in Savannah, Georgia. Her vast scope of work includes acting, directing, writing, film, moderating, and teaching. She is currently a professor of Film and Television at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Ashanti taught acting and directed short films at SCAD’s Lacoste France campus for two summers. She wrote and produced her one-woman show “Hell on Me,” which played in an extended run in New York City and at the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival. Ashanti can be seen next in Tyler Perry’s “Straw,” acting opposite Taraji P. Henson, set to premiere on Netflix in 2025. She has starred in many TV and film roles in both comedy and drama, from “NCIS Los Angeles, “Community,” to “Key and Peele to the Netflix film “Take the 10." She has been in numerous national commercials from Verizon, USPS, and Hallmark. She has interviewed many artists, including John Malcolm David, Adrian Brody, and Lesley Manville, at SCAD’s film festival in France and Savannah, Georgia.  Ashanti completed her master's degree in Graduate Acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and studied classical theatre at the University of Oxford in England.