Ashley Quarcoo

Ashley Quarcoo is the Senior Director of Democracy Programs and Pillars with the Partnership for American Democracy. Prior to joining the Partnership, Quarcoo was a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program. Her research focused on threats to democracy, social and political polarization, and comparative approaches toward building social cohesion and democratic renewal. Quarcoo also most recently served as senior research manager with the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship and American Identity Program. Her work has been published in Foreign Policy and USA Today, among others. Quarcoo previously spent over a decade supporting peacebuilding and democratic development in post-conflict countries and countries transitioning out of authoritarianism. She worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where she supported strategy, policy, and program development for a nearly $300 million democracy, human rights, and governance foreign assistance portfolio. She has also served with the State Department, as a legislative aide on Capitol Hill, and as a Teach for America corps member in New York City. Quarcoo was a 2020 Visiting Fellow with the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, a 2019-2020 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and a 2014-2019 Term Member of the Council. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Global Kids DC.