Ashleigh G. Wade is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and a Pre-Doctoral Residential Research Fellow at University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute.

Ashleigh's intellectual work is situated within the fields of Black girlhood studies, media studies, and digital humanities. Ashleigh's primary research seeks to understand technology practices among Black girls, with her current project focusing on how Black girls use cellphone-generated photography and film to contribute to conversations about race, gender, and sexuality, and how these visual expressions inform and reflect Black girls' creation of and movement through space.

Ashleigh has published on Black digital practices in The Black Scholar, and The National Political Science Review, and has a forthcoming article describing Black girls' digital kinship formations in Women, Gender, and Families of Color.