Farhad Asghar

Farhad Asghar joins Bottom Line after serving as a program officer with the Carnegie Corporation of New York. At Carnegie Farhad managed the Pathways to Postsecondary Success portfolio overseeing grantmaking aimed at creating flexible pathways for students throughout their K–16 education with the goal of college completion and preparing students for work and careers.

Farhad brings to his role at Bottom Line a history of managing direct service programs, strategic partnerships, and fundraising initiatives in institutions of higher education, large nonprofits, and community-based organizations. In previous roles he served as the executive director of community partnerships for the College Board’s Access to Opportunity program. Prior to that, he was the associate vice president for development and external relations, and the associate dean of Bank Street College of Education. Farhad also served as the director of Liberty LEADS, a highly successful college access program, and he taught English for a year in a public high school in Brooklyn.

Farhad holds a BA in English literature and secondary education from City University of New York’s Brooklyn College and a Master of Public Administration from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. Farhad is a naturalized U.S. citizen who moved from Pakistan to Queens, New York, as a child with his family.