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• Adam Conover (Los Angeles) -- writer, comedian, and television host; creator of Adam Ruins Everything and The G Word on Netflix; host of the investigative comedy podcast Factually!; board member of Writers Guild of America, West

• Adam Orman (Texas) -- restaurant owner and community advocate; founding member of Good Work Austin

• Adeel Khan (Denver) -- founder and CEO of MagicSchool AI, the leading generative AI platform for schools; previously spent his career as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and district administrator in public schools

• Adrian Brown (Sweden) -- chief executive of the Windfall Trust; founder of the Centre for Public Impact; held senior roles with Boston Consulting Group and the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit

• Aidan Kohn-Murphy (Washington, D.C.) -- founder of Gen-Z for Change, a youth-led advocacy organization leveraging social media for progressive impact; frequent commentator on digital activism and youth civic engagement; advisor to campaigns and nonprofits on Gen Z outreach and online strategy

• Amjad Masad* (Bay Area) -- founder and CEO of Replit, an online coding platform that makes software development easier for millions of people; former engineer at Facebook, founding engineer at Codecademy

• Amy Tam (Bay Area) -- investor at Bloomberg Beta and former product manager at LinkedIn; previously worked at RAND on AI policy and AI evaluations

• Andrea Dehlendorf (Bay Area) -- co-lead of Democracy Takes Work; senior fellow at the AI Now Institute; senior advisor for the Global Fund for a New Economy; strategy consultant and coach focused on labor and economic justice; former labor organizer and campaigner at SEIU, UNITE-HERE, and UFCW; co-founder and former executive director of United for Respect; founding team member of the Athena Coalition

• Andy Stern (New York) -- senior fellow at Economic Security Project; former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president; author of Raising the Floor

• Anmol Chaddha (Bay Area) -- principal at Omidyar Network, leads work on economic inequality, focusing on jobs/workers and technological change

• Avi Zenilman (New York) -- co-founder of Tavern Research, a tech and politics startup that makes, measures, and deploys persuasive content at scale; former journalist, infectious disease nurse, and researcher

• Ben Tarnoff (Massachusetts) -- technologist and author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future and the forthcoming Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed; contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has also written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New Republic, and others

• Benjamin Davis (Baltimore) -- chairman of the Department of Multimedia Journalism at Morgan State University, board member emeritus for the Princeton Prize in Race Relations; former launch team for MSNBC.com and Washington editor and executive producer for NPR

• Beth Kroman (Washington, D.C.) -- director at Bloomberg Beta, focused on technologies in commercial, government, and national security markets; recently led Mike Bloomberg’s efforts in defense; former associate director at Pallas Advisors

• Camiel Irving* (Washington, D.C.) -- vice president of operations at Uber and general manager of US & Canada mobility, responsible for the largest P&L in the rideshare industry; former brand manager at Procter & Gamble, where she led brands like Tampax, Puffs, and Charmin, and founded the startup brand Pepper & Wits (now Kindra); member of Pipeline Angels and active alum of Management Leadership for Tomorrow

• Chai Feldblum (Washington, D.C.) -- co-founder of EEO Leaders, a group of former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) officials; former Vice Chair of the AbilityOne Commission and EEOC commissioner; and former law professor at Georgetown Law Center; advocate and scholar on social justice issues, including LGBTQ and disability rights; counsels employers on anti-harassment and fostering respectful workplaces

• Cheyenne Hunt (California) -- executive director of Gen-Z for Change; attorney, digital strategist, and advocate; formerly big tech accountability advocate at Public Citizen

• Chris Griswold* (Washington, D.C.) -- policy director at American Compass; non-resident Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo; writes on public policy and politics for publications such as The New York Times, National Affairs, National Review, Newsweek, The Hill, and American Affairs; former senior advisor in the U.S. Senate, senior staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives, fellow at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations and Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs; helped launch a nationwide youth development nonprofit in South Africa

• Chris Hughes (New York) -- economist and writer; chair of the Economic Security Project; author of Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy and Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn; co-founded Facebook and later directed Barack Obama's digital organizing efforts in 2008; chairs the board of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and serves on the board of the New York Public Library

• Chris Hyams* (Texas) -- former CEO and board director of Indeed; board trustee and visiting lecturer at Huston-Tillotson University, a Historically Black University and Austin’s oldest institution of higher learning

• Christopher McKelvy (New York) -- co-founder of K. Ventures, focused on ensuring every American family has access to healthcare, education, and the skills or jobs of tomorrow; served in the US Army as an Airborne Ranger, completing a combat tour in Afghanistan; former head of hardware and software partnerships at Oculus VR; formerly ran the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation

• Claire Casey (Washington, D.C.) -- president of AARP Foundation; formerly led the Economist Group’s global public policy consulting business; member of the Council on Foreign Relations

• Clint “Q” Hinote (Virgina) -- retired Air Force lieutenant general and fighter pilot; former deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration, and requirements, where he led efforts to design the future Air Force; currently defense advisor to the Strategic Competitive Studies Project, field expert at Dcode, and principal at Pallas Advisors; professor of the practice at the RAND School of Public Policy

• Damon Silvers (Baltimore) -- senior advisor at AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers, visiting professor at Newcastle University and UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, led the AFL-CIO legal team that won severance payments for laid off Enron and WorldCom workers

• David Michaels (Washington, D.C.) -- epidemiologist and professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health; former US assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, longest serving in OSHA's history; former US assistant secretary of energy for environment, safety, and health; author of The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception

• Deep Ganguli (Bay Area) -- research scientist at Anthropic, leader of societal impacts research team; former research director at the Institute for Human-Centered AI at Stanford University; former Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; PhD in computational neuroscience from NYU

• Denise Hearn (Vermont) -- director of strategic initiatives at The Long Now Foundation; fellow at the Berggruen Institute; senior fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment; researches and advises on institutional design and strategy, competition policy, macroeconomics and financial markets, sustainable investment, and new economic thinking; co-author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition and The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

• Dewey Murdick (Washington, D.C.) -- professor of the practice and senior fellow at Georgetown University, leading the development of the Academic Innovation Network and researching human-AI teaming in educational settings; former executive director of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); previously directed science analytics at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, led R&D analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, and co-founded an anticipatory intelligence office at IARPA

• Dug Song* (Michigan) -- co-founder of the Song Foundation; former co-founder and CEO of Duo Security; co-founder and chair of the Michigan Founders Fund; serves on the boards of the Detroit Regional Chamber and the US EDA’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on racial justice and economic equity

• Elizabeth Wilkins (Washington, D.C.) -- executive director of the Roosevelt Institute; former senior fellow at American Economic Liberties Project and Workshop; former chief of staff to Chair Lina Khan and Director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the FTC; former senior advisor to the White House chief of staff; former law clerk to Associate Justice Elena Kagan of the U.S. Supreme Court and then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; former policy advisor in the White House Domestic Policy Council and political organizer for SEIU 32BJ in New York City

• Eric LeCompte (Washington, D.C.) -- executive director of Jubilee USA Network

• Erica Smiley (Washington, D.C.) -- executive director of Jobs With Justice; long-time organizer and movement leader, spearheading strategic organizing and policy interventions for the organization for over 20 years

• Fred Benenson (New York) -- builder-investor focused on AI-native products and angel and film investing, and currently developing an iOS version of the tabletop game Monikers for CMYK Games; former general partner at TwentyTwo Ventures, and vice president of data and second employee at Kickstarter; also worked as an engineer and admissions manager at Y Combinator; founder of Breadwinner, an IoT device for sourdough baking enthusiasts; creator of Emoji Dick, an emoji translation of Moby Dick that was acquired by the Library of Congress; has written for The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, WIRED, and 2600

• Galen Hines-Pierce (Washington, D.C.) -- Galen Hines-Pierce (Texas) – philanthropist and policy entrepreneur focused on AI, democratic resilience, and state capacity; founder and principal of the Minerva Fund and  founding board member of the Recoding America Fund; as a former civil servant, previously administered federal programs supporting workers and communities impacted by trade and deindustrialization

• Garrett Groves (Texas) -- vice chancellor of strategic initiatives for the Austin Community College District; directed the Economic Opportunity Program at Every Texan; served as a scholar in residence at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; served at the National Governors Association and the U.S. Department of Labor, working with state and local leaders on workforce, postsecondary education, and economic development policy

• Greg Landsman (Cincinnati) -- U.S. Representative for Southwest Ohio (D-OH-1); formerly served on the Cincinnati City Council for five years; prior to elected office, taught public school and was the executive director of the Strive Partnership, and served as the director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland

• Hamilton Nolan (New York) -- labor journalist and author of How Things Work on Substack; writes regularly for In These Times, The Guardian, and others; author of The Hammer about the American labor movement

• Harry Marino (Virginia) -- president and founder of Sports Solidarity, organizing workers across the sports industry; attorney; former professional baseball player and executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, led the unionization of minor league baseball players and negotiated first collective bargaining agreement; former assistant general counsel at the Major League Baseball Players Association, litigation associate at Williams & Connolly LLP, and law clerk to two federal judges

• Heather Long (Washington, D.C.) -- chief economist for the Navy Federal Credit Union; economics columnist at The Washington Post and winner of the 2024 Gerald Loeb Award for commentary; former lead economics reporter at The Post and a member of the editorial board

• Helen Min (Bay Area) -- founder and general partner of Articulate, an early-stage venture capital firm; held leadership roles at high-growth companies including AngelList, Plaid, Quora, Dropbox, and Facebook

• Jacob Leibenluft (New York) -- visiting fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth; formerly executive associate director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Biden administration; served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as counselor to Secretary Janet Yellen and as chief recovery officer; served in several roles at the National Economic Council, including deputy director and deputy assistant to the president; former executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress and senior advisor at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

• Jake Rosenfeld (St. Louis, MO) -- sociology professor at Washington University-St. Louis, author of two books including You're Paid What You’re Worth and Other Myths of the Modern Economy; National Science Foundation awardee; editorial board member of numerous publications including ILR Review

• James Cham* (Bay Area) -- founding partner with Bloomberg Beta focused on AI investments; former software engineer and investor at Bessemer and Trinity Ventures, Insider’s #3 seed investor

• Jamie Barton (Texas) -- senior vice president global human resources and labor relations at AT&T; supports AT&T’s employees represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), and Teamsters

• Jason Solomon (Bay Area) -- director of the National Institute of Workers’ Rights; former Executive Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School; former Chief Legal Officer for an education-technology nonprofit and public charter school network

• Jaz Brisack (Bay Area) -- co-founder of the Inside Organizer School; launched Starbucks workers' unionizing efforts; author of Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World; union organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers; named by TIME as one of its Next Generation Leaders and named a 2025-2026 Obama Foundation Leader

• Jeffrey Boyd (New York) -- executive director of the American Guild of Musical Artists; former international officer for the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tourism, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) and former chair of the Council of Global Unions LGBTI Coordinating Committee

• Jennifer Epps (Maryland) -- executive director of the LIFT Fund, a philanthropic collaborative advancing worker rights and power by deepening collaboration among unions, philanthropy, community organizations, and academia; formerly executive director of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association; previously vice president and senior organizer at 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East

• Jerry Muller (Washington, D.C.) -- writer, lecturer, and professor emeritus of history; speaks and publishes on topics including capitalism, performance metrics, the relationship between the family and the market, and nationalism; has lectured to governmental, professional, and general audiences in the US, Europe, and Latin America; currently working on a new book, Passing It On: Thinking Across Generations about Money, Time, and Purpose

• Jerusalem Demsas (Washington, D.C.) -- CEO and editor-in-chief of The Argument, a new media company; formerly a staff writer at The Atlantic and Vox.com, covering housing, democracy, and institutional failure

• Jess Rimington (Bay Area) -- co-author of Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work; co-director of the Beloved Economies research initiative; co-lead of the Collaborative for Narrative Infrastructure

• Jillian Arnold (Los Angeles) -- president of Mission Critical Media; served as IATSE Artificial Intelligence Sub-Committee Chair for the 2024 IATSE-AMPTP negotiations; camera engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she contributed to the Mars Program and other missions; in 2020, became the first woman elected president of IATSE Local 695 in the union's ninety-year history; freelance recording and workflow engineer for Live TV Shows

• Jodi Forlizzi (Pittsburgh) -- professor of Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; design researcher studying the ethical impacts of human interaction with AI systems in front-line service industries including healthcare and hospitality; Senior Advisor at the AFL-CIO Tech Institute; ACM SIGCHI Fellow and recipient of its Lifetime Research Award; member of the NIST Industrial Advisory Committee on technology research

• Jody Miller (Los Angeles) -- co-founder and former CEO and chairwoman at Business Talent Group, which sold to Heidrick & Struggles in 2021; board member of Howmet Aerospace and LKQ; advisor to the CEO of Malt; venture partner with Maveron; former Special Assistant to President Clinton; one of Fortune’s ten “Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs,” and E&Y’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women; writes on restructuring work in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times

• Jonathan Berry (Washington, D.C.) -- managing partner at Boyden Gray PLLC, providing strategic counsel and litigating at the intersection of law, politics, and public policy, particularly in labor, employment, and benefits policy; previously headed the regulatory office at the U.S. Department of Labor and served at the Department of Justice in the Trump Administration; served as a law clerk to Judge Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and to Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of the Supreme Court of the United States.

• Jonathan Glick (New York) -- investor and founder of Ball Metaverse Research Partners, developing financial products designed to capture the long-term transition to synthetic reality; previously served as director of research at Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) and head of technology and product at The New York Times Electronic Media Company; trustee of Ithaka

• Josh Eidelson (Bay Area) -- labor and workplace reporter at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek; recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, UCLA’s Gerald Loeb Awards, and others

• Julius Krein (Boston) -- editor and founder of American Affairs; director of the New American Industrial Alliance, political writer and contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post

• Karen Anderson (Washington, D.C.) -- managing director of the Social Finance Institute; formerly senior director of policy and communications for the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago and senior advisor to Results for America; previously managing director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings; veteran of two White Houses, having served as chief of staff for the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration and as regional coordinator in the White House Office of Political Affairs for the Clinton administration; former vice president of state and local government relations for Citigroup

• Karin Klein* (New York) -- founding partner with Bloomberg Beta; former Softbank VP, during the period when Softbank realized the most successful exits in NYC; previous investor at Knowledge Universe; founder of acquired education startup

• Kevin Delaney (New York) -- editor-in-chief of the SF Standard; CEO and editor in chief of Charter, a future-of-work media and research company; former founding editor in chief and co-CEO of Quartz, a senior editor for The New York Times, and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal online; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and named Business Journalist of the year by Talking Biz News

• Kevin O'Neil (Baltimore) -- managing director of new frontiers at The Rockefeller Foundation; former research fellow at the University of Cape Town; fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation; policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute; firefighter on four continents

• Kim Kelly (Philadelphia) -- labor reporter for In These Times and regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue; contributing writer for The Nation, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baffler, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and other publications; video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV; served three terms as an elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America, East Council; author of Fight Like Hell

• Kris Clark (Baltimore) -- oversees risk management for Dell's global supply chain; formerly served at the White House on the National Security Council; at the Department of State, held a variety of positions including special assistant and policy advisor to the deputy secretary of state; served as an officer in the U.S. Navy; vice chair of the board of directors of the Responsible Business Alliance

• Kyla Scanlon -- author of In This Economy and economic commentator

• Laine Romero-Alston (Washington D.C.) -- founder and principal of Working Strategies LCC and the director of the Worker Power Funder Group; leading a new global multi stakeholder initiative to strengthen and expand resources for global labor movement infrastructure and worker-centered, multilateral policy architecture; previously served as the senior advisor for Stakeholder Engagement and Strategic Partnerships in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau for International Labor Affairs (ILAB); spent 15 years in philanthropy, leading global and domestic labor rights and economic justice strategies for the Open Societies, Ford, and Solidago Foundations; spent her early career doing community organizing and policy work in the U.S. and Mexico

• Laphonza Butler (Washington, D.C.) -- advisor to OpenAI; former senator from California; union organizer and president of the California SEIU State Council and Emily’s List; former member of the University of California Board of Regents

• Liba Rubenstein* (Los Angeles) -- leads the Aspen Institute's Future of Work Initiative, which includes its Business Roundtable on Organized Labor; former head of social impact at 21st Century Fox, Tumblr, and MySpace; board member of the Alliance for Youth Organizing; former member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption

• Lori Berenberg (New York) -- investor at Bloomberg Beta

• Manoush Zomorodi (New York) -- journalist, author, and host of NPR’s TED Radio Hour; 2025 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center resident; author of Bored and Brilliant; leader of the Body Electric project, a collaboration between NPR and Columbia University Medical Center and one of the largest public health studies of its kind; named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business

• Marco Zappacosta (Bay Area) -- co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, a marketplace for local services; recognized on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Fortune’s 40 Under 40 lists

• Marie-Therese Connolly (Washington, D.C.) -- co-designer of the RISE model; president of the RISE Collaborative; architect of the federal Elder Justice Act; founder of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative; lead author of the Elder Justice Roadmap; a MacArthur “Genius” Award winner; and author of The Measure of Our Age

• Marshall Kosloff* (New York) -- senior fellow at the Niskanen Center; executive producer of Endless Frontiers and entrepreneur-in-residence at America’s Frontier Fund; media fellow at Hudson Institute and the Foundation for American Innovation; hosts The Realignment and the Arsenal of Democracy podcasts; fellow at UT-Austin's Clements Center for National Security, and a researcher at PBS's Firing Line with Margaret Hoover; former executive producer and host at On Deck

• Marty Manley (Bay Area) -- founder and leader of labor, business, and public organizations; former leader within HERE, SEIU, IAMAW, and political director of the Silicon Valley AFL-CIO; former consultant at McKinsey, advising unions on business restructuring; assistant U.S. secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration; co-founder and former CEO of technology startups Alibris and RedLink; writer of Modern Times on Substack

• Mary Beech (Washington, D.C.) -- fellow at Workshop; visiting fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and policy consultant specializing in AI and emerging technology; served in the Biden-Harris administration as director of workers and technology policy at the U.S. Department of Labor; former tech division chief of staff and senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and chief of staff of the Employee Benefits Security Administration; prior to government, worked at Third Capital Partners

• Mary Kay Henry (Bay Area) -- former international president of the two million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the first woman to lead the union; named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, one of Fast Company's 100 most creative leaders, and one of Politico's top 50 visionaries reshaping American politics; board member of the Freedom Together Foundation; 25/26 Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Global Politics at Columbia University in NYC named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, one of Fast Company’s 100 most creative leaders, and one of Politico’s top 50 visionaries reshaping American politics; board member of the Freedom Together Foundation

• Maureen Conway (Washington, D.C.) -- executive director of the Economic Opportunities Program and vice president at Aspen Institute; co-editor of Connecting People to Work: Workforce Intermediaries and Sector Strategies; executive fellow at the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University

• Mike Carney (Washington, D.C.) -- president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, leading efforts to harness the power of business for the good of America and the world; former journalist and consultant

• Mike Kubzansky (Washington, D.C.) -- CEO of Omidyar Network

• Muneer Ahmad (New Haven, CT) -- Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School; co-directs the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and teaches on immigration and labor; formerly senior advisor to the US Secretary of Labor, where he led work on AI and labor

• Nabiha Syed (New York) -- executive director of the Mozilla Foundation; formerly CEO of The Markup, a journalism non-profit, and previously a media lawyer; serves on the boards of the Scott Trust (which owns The Guardian), the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the New Press; advisor to ex/ante and member of the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance

• Natalie Foster* (Bay Area) -- advocate for post-neoliberal economics, like a guaranteed income and anti-monopoly policy, president; co-founder of Economic Security Project; senior fellow with the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative; former digital director for Obama for America (OFA) and Democratic National Committee; author of The Guarantee… and recommended we create [Going to Work] in the first place!

• Neidi Dominguez (Albuquerque, NM) -- founding executive director of Organized Power In Numbers (formerly Unemployed Workers United); organizer, campaigner, and strategist in the immigrant and workers' rights movements; migrated from Mexico at age nine; leader in the campaign to win Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); co-directed the CLEAN Carwash campaign, unionizing workers into the Steelworkers Union; former leadership roles at AFL-CIO, IUPAT, and served as national states deputy director for Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign

• Noam Scheiber (Illinois) -- labor and workplace reporter for the New York Times; formerly senior editor at The New Republic, author of forthcoming book, Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

• Oren Cass (Massachusetts) -- founder and chief economist at American Compass; former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; contributing editor at the Financial Times and contributing opinion writer at the New York Times; author of The Once and Future Worker

• Osita Nwanevu (Baltimore) -- contributing editor at The New Republic; columnist at The Guardian; democratic institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute; author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding

• Peter Rojas* (Bay Area) -- senior vice president of new products at Mozilla; founder of Gizmodo/Gawker Media and Engadget/Weblogs Inc.; former Head of Product for New Product Experimentation at Meta; founding partner at Betaworks Ventures; co-founder of RCRD LBL and gdgt (acquired by AOL); former vice president of strategy at AOL

• Randi Weingarten (New York) -- president of the American Federation of Teachers; former president of the United Federation of Teachers; named one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI by Time, one of Washington’s Most Influential People by the Washingtonian, and one of the most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years by the New York Observer; author of Why Fascists Fear Teachers

• Rebecca Petras (Baltimore) -- co-founder and director of Psst.org, a non-partisan, non-profit public service helping people bring forward public interest information safely and collectively; former director of operations at The Signals Network, a whistleblowing support organization; former director of the Geneva-based H2H Network, and deputy director of Translators without Borders (TWB)

• Ron Bloom (New York) -- vice-chair and managing partner at Brookfield and general partner at Commonweal Ventures; steering committee member for the Center for State Labor Innovation, board chair of WorkMoney Media and senior advisor, of Sports Solidarity; former leader at Lazard, former chair of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service; led the restructuring of the American auto industry and served as assistant to the president for manufacturing policy; former special assistant to the President of the United Steelworkers

• Roy Bahat* (Bay Area and Milwaukee) -- head of Bloomberg Beta; faculty at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business; chair of Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor; nonresident senior fellow at Brookings

• Russ Fradin (Bay Area) -- founder and CEO of Larridin; Vice Chairman of Carbon Health; former founder of Dynamic Signal and Adify; former board member of comScore, TubeMogul, Udemy

• Sameera Fazili (Georgia) -- economic policy expert; senior fellow at Workshop and the Roosevelt Institute; former deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of the White House’s National Economic Council; serves on the boards of the Heinz Endowments and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth; previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Treasury Department, and Yale Law School

• Sara Fenske Bahat (Bay Area and Milwaukee) -- advisor to “The PolyOpportunity” at the House of Beautiful Business; served as transition director for San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie; former CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where she also served as board chair and fellow; previously chair of the MBA in Design Strategy program at California College of the Arts; held leadership roles at the New York State Banking Department and Citigroup; began her career at New York City’s Economic Development Corporation

• Sara Nelson (Washington, D.C.) -- international president of Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO; called the “America’s most powerful flight attendant” by the New York Times for helping to end the 35-day government shutdown; served as co-chair of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force on the Economy

• Sarah Rogers (Bay Area) -- partner, COO, and chief compliance officer of Glynn Capital; co-founder of District 9 Neighbors for Housing and board member of SF YIMBY

• Satyen Sangani (Bay Area) -- co-founder and CEO of Alation, a leader in enterprise data intelligence; former vice president of analytics at Oracle; started career at Morgan Stanley as an analyst; advocate for data-driven decision-making and agentic transformation in work

• Seema Nanda (Virginia) -- labor, employment, and civil rights lawyer; currently a fellow with Workshop: Catalyzing Change for Workers, Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy, and Cornell Law School’s Migration and Human Rights Program; served as the Senate-confirmed solicitor of labor; former chief executive officer of the Democratic National Committee; served as executive vice president and COO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and as chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez; led the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Immigrant and Employee Rights; previously worked at the National Labor Relations Board and practiced labor and employment law in the private sector

• Siena Chiang* (Los Angeles) -- co-lead of Democracy Takes Work; former early team member and vice president of people and culture at PillPack (now Amazon Pharmacy), project lead for Bloomberg LP’s COO, and policy advisor for disaster recovery and sustainability in the NYC Mayor’s Office

• Skanda Amarnath (New York) -- executive director at Employ America; former vice president at MKP Capital Management; former analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Sofia Ongele (Los Angeles) -- developer, content creator, and organizer; director of strategy at Gen-Z for Change; recipient of the California Endowment Voices for Change Award and named a CES Young Innovator to Watch

• Stacey Abrams (Georgia) -- bestselling author, entrepreneur, and political leader; former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives and the first Black woman to become a gubernatorial nominee for a major party in U.S. history; founder of multiple nonprofit organizations focused on democracy protection, voting rights, and public policy; co-founder of several companies, including a financial services firm, an energy and infrastructure consulting firm, and Sage Works Productions; founder of 10stepscampaign.org

• Steve Catanese (Pennsylvania) -- president of SEIU Local 668, a member-driven labor union representing over 19,000 predominately public sector workers across Pennsylvania, since 2018; negotiated an agreement with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro this year that provides over 10,000 state employees with increased protections against potential negative impacts from the introduction of generative AI to the workplace and a voice in its implementation through formal joint labor-management meetings; studied and had a background in journalism before becoming a public assistance caseworker, where he joined SEIU 668

• Susan Lyne (New York) -- co-founder and managing partner of BBG Ventures, a seed-stage fund backing women and diverse founders; former president of ABC Entertainment; CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, CEO and chair of Gilt.com, and CEO of AOL’s Brand Group; recognized in Forbes inaugural 50 Over 50, Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Tech, Ad Age Publishing Executive of the Year, and received a Matrix Award from NY Women in Communications; founding Champion with Journey to Lead and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

• Telita Crosland (Virginia) -- retired US Army Lieutenant General with over 35 years of service; former director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA); board-certified in family medicine

• Tom Kochan (Boston) -- George Maverick Bunker Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, member of the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future, and faculty member in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research, led the formation of the Employment Policy Research Network (EPRN); author of several books including Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract; past president of the International Industrial Relations Association

• Trey Causey (Seattle) -- previously led responsible AI efforts at Indeed; also held product, data science, and engineering roles at Stripe, Socrata, Facebook, and Dato, among others

• Umesh Khanna (Bay Area) -- angel investor and two-time founder, having built Vitameter, a medical device that measures vitamin levels from a drop of blood, and Sakdior, an incorporation-as-a-service platform; currently works at Dropbox AI on Dropbox Dash

• Willa Seldon (Bay Area) -- partner at The Bridgespan Group; co-leads the Economic Security and Opportunity area of expertise; helped launch initiatives such as Black Ambition and OneTen, and supported mobilization efforts like the White House Council for Community Solutions; former executive director of the Tides Center and AirTouch Communications, acquired by Vodaphone

• William Isaac (U.K.) -- research scientist at DeepMind specializing in AI ethics and fairness; former senior research scientist at OpenAI; founding member of the Partnership on AI’s Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability working group; PhD in Political Science from Michigan State University; advisor to multiple organizations on responsible AI and algorithmic justice

• Wilma Liebman (Washington, D.C.) -- former chairman and member of the National Labor Relations Board; currently adjunct professor of labor law at NYU Law School; board member of Ownership Works; former board member of the Economic Policy Institute, former chief external ethics officer for the United Automobile Workers Union and past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association

• Xavier Briggs (Washington, D.C.) -- senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; educator and researcher, with leadership experience in philanthropy and government; formerly vice president of the Ford Foundation, faculty member at Harvard and MIT, and senior White House official; author of The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (winner of planning’s top book award), Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe (short-listed for the C. Wright Mills Award), and Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty (winner of the Louis Brownlow Award)

* denotes members of the [Going to Work] Welcome Committee.