Career
She competed in the Mission United States of America pageant in 2007 and the Mission South Carolina Teen United States of America pageants from 2002–2003, making the semi-finals of the 2003 event and placing first runner-up at Mission South Carolina Teen United States of America 2004. Zais graduated from Wofford College. She was a recipient of the Palmetto Fellowship for academic excellence.
Her professional modelling career has taken her to Tokyo, Japan.
In 2008, Zais served as the Summer Intern coordinator for the John McCain presidential campaign. After the election she took a job with the Decisive Analytics Corporation in Arlington, Virginia.
Ashley married former John McCain presidential campaign staffer Michael Culhane Harper, an attorney at Jones Day, on April 17, 2010.
