Ash Perez

ABOUT ASH PEREZ

Travel editor and Violet video producer at BuzzFeed who became very popular on social media. Their itsashlyperez Instagram has accrued more than 460,000 followers.

They moved to Daegu, South Korea to teach English to children and traveled throughout Asia. They later returned to the US.

They penned a BuzzFeed lifestyle article called "I Wasn't Beautiful Enough To Live In South Korea" where they weighed in on South Korean culture's extreme emphasis on young women's appearance.

They are from California and of Cuban, Filipino and Korean descent. They lost their dad in 2020. They married Chantel Houston in 2022.

They and Andrew Ilnyckyj have both worked for BuzzFeed as video producers.