In 2024 Ashley was a semi-finalist for the FX Singleton Scholars & Disney Entertainment Television (DET) Writing Program for her pilots LISTEN TO THE KIDS and SCAPPÀRE.

Diverse Representation, the organization that advocates for greater visibility of Black representatives and attorneys in entertainment, has unveiled the names of the 6 participants taking part in its 2021 inaugural Black Entertainment Executives Pipeline Program.

Ashley S. Quince participated as a television research coder for the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Media Impact Project, and its collaboration with civil rights nonprofit Color of Change, on the publication of “Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre.” In 2020, the institutions published the 154-page report which analyzed 26 different scripted series and found that television’s most popular genre excludes writers of color, miseducates people about the criminal justice system and makes racial injustice acceptable. NCIS, Lethal Weapon, Elementary, The Blacklist, Blindspot, Blue Bloods, Chicago P.D. and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit among worst offenders.

Ashley S. Quince was award the Jamie Lubarr Research Prize. A prize awarded in honor of Jamie Lubarr ‘72 to an individual studying Anthropology, Film, or Photography to facilitate the making of an ethnographic or documentary film, video, or photographic series that combines anthropology and the visual media.

The faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences (Smolny) at St. Petersburg State University chose Ashley S. Quince, and five additional Bard College Annandale undergraduate students’ paper proposals, to participate in the annual Smolny International Student Conference held at the Bobrinskiy Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Ashley S. Quince was chosen to present her documentary “What Are You?” The U.S. Census Race Categories at the conference.

Lambda Pi Eta (LPH) is an official honor society of the National Communication Association (NCA). Eligible students are recognized for graduating with honors at the University of Southern California. Ashley S. Quince was inaugurated in 2016 and participated throughout the duration of her graduate program at the University of Southern California.

The BAA Scholar is awarded to USC students on the basis of academic and personal merit. In 2018 Ashley S. Quince was selected as a BAA Scholar.