President and founder

Ashley has spent her career making public opinion research more rigorous and more useful. She started at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and spent the last two decades at YouGov, where she designed and led some of the country's most-cited political and public affairs studies.

President & Founder

Ashley has spent her career turning public opinion data into something clients can trust. She founded Public Wisdom with a mission to build a survey company designed for today’s researchers, one grounded in rigorous methods and real respondents. “The key was to build a panel of survey respondents using rigorous methods so that researchers could again trust their data.” Because good research demands good methods.

Trained by renowned survey methodologist Don Dillman at Washington State University, Grossé holds a Ph.D. in American Politics. She began her career at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research managing the American National Election Studies, and has since led some of the nation’s most significant public opinion research on political behavior and health outcomes. Most recently, her work focused on developing more accurate polling methodologies ahead of the 2024 presidential election. 

What clients get

Professional expertise and intellectual collaboration to solve problems and tackle difficult research questions.

At most large research firms, senior researchers hand off client work to junior teams once the contract is signed. At Public Wisdom, Ashley is with you at every stage — bringing expert-level collaboration and deep subject matter expertise to every project, from start to finish.

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