Aboubacar "Asn" Ndiaye

Executive Director

Aboubacar “Asn” Ndiaye was most recently the California Housing and Climate Campaign Manager at PowerSwitch Action. He worked with the organization's California affiliates to create a more sustainable and democratic future by developing campaigns and policies to advance climate equity and housing justice in California.

Prior to joining PowerSwitch, Asn was the Partnership for the Bay’s Future Challenge Grant Fellow, working with the City of San Jose and Somos Mayfair to address displacement through a tenant preference policy, a preservation strategy, and alternative models for homeownership like community land trusts and limited equity co-ops. Before the fellowship, he served as policy manager for Working Partnerships USA. At Working Partnerships, Asn helped secure a $150 million commitment to affordable housing from Google and supported a package of state legislation addressing the “3Ps” of housing: protection, preservation, and production. He has also worked as a strategic researcher for SEIU Local 1, responsible for planning and developing organizing campaigns for building services workers in the Midwest.

Asn holds a bachelor's degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin. He has also written for national publications including The Atlantic and NPR’s Codeswitch.

Outside of work, Asn enjoys long road and train trips, watching Ken Burns documentaries, and hanging out with his nieces.