Ashley Dequilla is an artist-filmmaker and archivist of Negrense, Ilongga, and Tagalog descent. She is a 2023 graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago MFA in Moving Image. Ashley is the de facto archivist of the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago and a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, working in tandem with Chicago Film Society and University of Chicago's South Side Home Movie Project.