Our Team

Ausaf Qarni, Director of Research and Analytics at Working America, oversees the organization’s analytics initiatives. Managing a team of analysts, he focuses on assessing the effectiveness of innovative practices within Working America’s programs using randomized control trials. His analysis of campaigns and experimental results contribute to fostering a culture of learning within the progressive movement. He spends much of his time extracting actionable, quantitative insights from the vast database of over 10 million face-to-face conversations conducted by Working America canvassers, more than 1,000 clinical experiments spanning in-person and digital media campaigns, his involvement in over 250 contests and campaigns to provide direct benefits to working-class people.

He first became a part of Working America in 2010, taking on various positions throughout the years. Between 2015 and 2017, he served as the Manager of Data & Insights at Atlantic Media. In this capacity, he created quantitative bench-marking metrics and analytical tools to provide consultation to client organizations focused on advocacy and branding strategies.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in economics from The George Washington University.

An immigrant from Karachi, Pakistan, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.