Executive Director

Saqib is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of ACRE Institute and the Bargaining for the Common Good Network. He works on campaigns to win racial and economic justice by taking on the corporations responsible for extracting wealth and resources from communities of color and poor people.

Coming from an immigrant Muslim family from Pakistan, Saqib’s first foray into organizing was with the student anti-war movement following 9/11. After college he spent 10 years working on corporate campaigns with the Culinary Workers Union (UNITE HERE) in Las Vegas and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He also served as a fellow at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Roosevelt Institute, where he launched the ReFund America Project, a predecessor organization to ACRE.

Saqib serves on the boards of the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and the Climate Organizing Hub. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and his master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.