Ashley Teodorson-Taggart has a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Davis, with Designated Emphases in Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Theory and Research, and Studies in Performance and Practice. Her work emerges from an eighteen-year practice as a full spectrum community birth doula and her years as a career staff member at the UC Davis Women's Resources and Research Center.

Her research examines the technological mediation of reproduction–the shift away from the medical industrial complex writ large toward app-based platforms and wearables that use artificial intelligence and powerful predictive algorithms to produce information about sexual health, from anticipating fertility to preventing pregnancy to harvesting data on other aspects of bodily function. She is particularly attentive to how these technologies, and the data they gather, can be and are being used in a post-Roe landscape to track, influence, and even prosecute users seeking reproductive healthcare.

Her dissertation traces this trajectory to its speculative frontier, examining emerging reproductive technologies–polygenic embryo selection, in vitro gametogenesis, ectogenesis, and iterated embryo selection–and asking what becomes of human reproduction, and of reproductive stratification, at the threshold of artificial general intelligence, with a concluding turn toward the possibility of a posthuman future in which access to these technologies deepens inequality rather than dissolving it. This work has been supported by her affiliations with the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis, where she facilitated workshops on equity and institutional culture, and the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures at UC Davis, where she researches emerging technologies and their social and reproductive implications.

Ash teaches in the Department of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis, where she is serving as Associate Instructor for Community Media Production in the 2026 summer session and has taught for several years as a lead teaching assistant across the department's core media curriculum. 

Her published work can be found in Seneca Review (Spring 2020, Vol. 50, No. 1) and in Nothing Personal?! Essays on Affect, Gender and Queerness (b_books): https://www.hws.edu/offices/senecareview/back-issues.aspx and https://www.bbooks.de/verlag/nothing-personal.