Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo is the president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the executive director of Caring Across Generations, as well as a labor leader, award-winning organizer, author, and leading voice in the women’s movement. She recently served as a commissioner on President Biden’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Poo is a nationally recognized expert on the care economy and the author of the celebrated book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. She earned recognition from Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, from Time Magazine as one of 100 Most Influential People, and from the MacArthur Fellowship as a “Genius Grant” recipient. She also received the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award from the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.

Poo has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Milken Institute Global Conference, TEDWomen, and the Skoll World Forum. She has appeared on PBS, Nightline, MSNBC, and CBS, and has been a guest on popular podcasts including On Being with Krista Tippett, We Can Do Hard Things, and The Ezra Klein Show. Poo earned a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia College and holds honorary degrees from CUNY and The New School.