Ashley Reese
ABOUT ASHLEY REESE
Freelance journalist, writer, author, news reporter, Instagram star, online content creator, and social media personality who authors the popular substack "Bad Brain". Her candidness about grief and navigating adulthood after losing your partner has led to her gaining over 50,000 followers on her Instagram account offbeatorbit.
Some of her first writing samples were posted on her LiveJournal account when she was a teenager. She graduated from Howard University in 2012 with a bachelors degree in Print and Online Journalism. She joined Instagram in July 2011.
She has worked as a contract writer for Netflix in the past. For four years she was a staff writer for the publication Jezebel. She has featured several photos from her wedding on her Instagram account. She has also posted various family photos.
She has a cat named Walter. Her husband Rob Stengel died form Peritoneal Mesothelioma in December 2022.
She follows Chloe Cherry on Instagram.