Ashleigh Gardere

Ashleigh Gardere is the President of PolicyLink, a research and action institute, where she is focused on redesigning the nation to work for all. Throughout her 20+ year career, she has harnessed the power of collaboration to help accelerate systems transformation and equity through executive roles in government, business, and the nonprofit sector. She understands that realizing a flourishing multiracial democracy requires new values and governing standards in service of our collective flourishing; new ways of working between government and community; and new ways of being, individually and as part of institutions.