New Smyrna Beach, FL – We are thrilled to have Ashton bring his keen eye to our illustrious panel of jurors. Ashton is the Editor in Chief of Stab. He’s written features and directed films for Surfer, Bon Apetit, The Surfer’s Journal, The New York Times/Herald-Tribune, Vice, and n+1, held marketing positions at GoPro, Old Navy, and Sightglass, founded The Compound in Sarasota, Florida, and attended the New School, in New York City, for Non-Fiction Creative Writing, where he studied under Mark Greif, Margo Jefferson, Chris Hondros, Christopher Hitchens, and Andrew Meier. Growing up on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Ashton gleaned his appreciation for riding waves and telling stories from his father, Mark, a mailman/surfer who lived through the culture’s adventurous ’70s to tell some tales, and who as a proud second-generation Post Man enjoys the gift for gab as well as an uncanny ability to Listen. When not cracking the whip in Stab‘s Los Angeles office producing surfing’s most high profile projects, Ashton is chasing waves up and down the California coast in his beloved Ford F-150 freedom bird, Rocinante, on international strikes with his younger brother, Jack, or sourcing vintage American artifacts with his partner, Samantha.
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