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ACI Cocktails & Conversation - Hip Hop Culture and Couture

Join Ashley LaRae Sampson, Founder & President of StylePHX, as she presents a snapshot of the Hip Hop music industry and shares her experience as a stylist touring with hip-hop’s most high-profile, celebrity performers.

Enjoy a no-host reception prior to the lecture. 

Singer Hall, located in the Education Building.

Event tickets are complimentary for current ACI Members; $5 for the public. Reserve your seat by Monday, October 23. Click HERE for your ticket.

About the speaker:

After beginning her career as a celebrity fashion stylist, touring with world-renown superstars such as Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Keyshia Cole along with fashion consulting for various musicians, athletes, businesspersons and projects, Ashley now teaches people how to align their personal and professional brands with their Ideal Self through image & brand consulting, business and spiritual advising, mindfulness, sound healing, art, and esoteric tools with StylePHX, founded in 2010, accompanying brand-curated Shop (ShopStylePHX.com), Grow|StylePHX Garden, and healing outreach, The Esoteric Blueprint.

Over the years, Ashley has also instructed a course at her alma mater, Arizona State University, in their Herberger Institute School of Art - Fashion program and has produced and hosted shows for Social Television Network (STNTV), where you can stream her healing mini-series, ‘Of Sound Mind,’ interviews with community leaders on ‘Arizona Achievers’ and more.

Ashley has dedicated free time to community empowerment through Grow|StylePHX Garden at Project Roots AZ, as a member of Phoenix College President's Advisory Council, a Million Dollar Teacher Project and OneMillion Entrepreneurs Advisor, Past Chair of Phoenix Valley Young Professionals, Communications Director for AIGA Arizona, Marketing Co-Chair for Girls in Tech Phoenix, Vice Chair of Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams’ Business Council, Youth Mentor with New Pathways for Youth, and member of Achieve60AZ African American Attainment Equity Task Force.

Ashley is a proud alumnus of Arizona State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Minor in Communication Studies before attending Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles for a Professional Designation in Visual Communication.