Meet Asha Dahya - Emmy-nominated Producer, writer, TEDx speaker and storyteller. Asha was born in the UK, raised in Australia, and now resides in Los Angeles, California. She has spent the last 18 years creating, producing and hosting content for networks and organizations such as MTV, MSN.com, Disney, ABC, Nickelodeon, Fox, the ACLU, Supermajority, Snapchat, Nine Network Australia and more.
Asha is the founder of a daily feminist blog site called GirlTalkHQ.com, which spawned a book deal in 2018. Asha is the author of ‘Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing The World’, released through Dover Publishing in March 2020, featuring inspirational stories of 50 women and girls.
In 2024, Asha was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work producing the short film MY NAME IS SIRI, featuring the story of an immigrant Indian family helping their daughter with non-verbal autism find independence and support in order to thrive.
Asha is the director and producer of a new short documentary about later abortion called SOMEONE YOU KNOW, and created, Executive Produced and co-hosted an audio and video series about the Green Wave Movement in Latin America called GREEN TIDE RISING. Asha is the Board Chair of the national non-profit Religious Community for Reproductive Choice (RCRC.org) and has been involved with the organization since 2021.
Asha lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.