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ASHLEY FISHER M \u201919<\/b><\/p>\n
She Can<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> By\u00a0Paul Hyde \u201916<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> When she was very young, Fisher lost her right arm, a tragedy that she\u2019s turned into a source of motivation for herself \u2014 and others<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> Several years ago, Ashley Fisher discovered her personal motto, written by novelist R.S. Grey: \u201cShe believed she could, so she did.\u201d Several years ago, Ashley Fisher discovered her personal motto, written by novelist R.S. Grey: \u201cShe believed she could, so she did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[2798],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","category-my-clemson","tag-summer-2020-alumni-profiles"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Ashley_Fischer_2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22278"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cI was so glad to find a quote that matches me so well,\u201d says Fisher, who graduated in December 2019 from Clemson\u2019s Master of Real Estate Development program. \u201cNow I put it everywhere \u2014 in my email and even on my graduation invitations.\u201d
\nFisher owns a supremely confident, can-do attitude despite what many would consider a serious limitation: When she was 16 months old, she lost her right arm in a traffic accident.
\n\u201cWhen people see a person with a disability, they may expect them to be sad, but I\u2019m the exact opposite, a positive and happy person,\u201d she says. \u201cI have an amazing support system with my family, friends and my daughter. And I find joy in making other people happy.\u201d
\nAfter growing up in Greenville, N.C., and graduating from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro with a bachelor\u2019s in landscape architecture, Fisher started looking for possible graduate programs. A trusted professor and Clemson alum said, \u201cGo to Clemson.\u201d
\n\u201c[My professor] could see me doing real estate development because everything I was doing for my senior project was geared toward that,\u201d Fisher says. It wasn\u2019t long before she moved from one Greenville to another, finding an apartment a short distance from Greenville ONE, a towering building in the bustling downtown of Greenville, South Carolina, that houses Clemson\u2019s graduate real estate development classes.
\n\u201cAshley was an excellent student with a dynamic, positive attitude,\u201d says Robert Benedict, a Clemson professor of practice and former director of the Master of Real Estate Development program.
\nNow, Fisher works full-time for Guess Construction Company in Winston-Salem, N.C. She started working for the company several months before graduation and is a first point of contact for clients, working on site plans and real estate development.
\nFisher has not only overcome her early challenges; she\u2019s become an admired advocate for the disabled, with 12,000 Facebook followers and 25,000 YouTube subscribers. In more than 70 videos, she demonstrates how she successfully navigates life with a physical limitation.
\n\u201cI show people how I drive, make food, do my hair, change my daughter\u2019s diaper, how I exercise and how I put up wallpaper in my kitchen,\u201d she says.
\nSome of her videos have been viewed by more than 100,000 people; one video has racked up more than 1 million views. Fisher\u2019s social media presence, however, is merely a sideline. Her ultimate goal is to create her own real estate development company.
\nAs her favorite quote suggests, she believes she can, so she will.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>