Ambreen Ali is a communications and media leader who founded Central Desi, a news platform for New Jersey's fast-growing South Asian population. She began her journalism career in Washington, D.C., where she was a Congressional reporter for CQ Roll Call. She has published widely on business, technology, and other topics in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The Wire China, Agence France Presse, Seattle Magazine, Runner's World and more. She also served as the editor of a special section on climate change at Fortune Magazine.

Ambreen has held numerous communications, project management and marketing roles, including serving as creative director of a digital marketing agency whose primary client was Microsoft. She has taught journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and The College of New Jersey. Ambreen graduated from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington with College Honors and received a M.S. in New Media Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.