Ai-jen Poo (Chicago) -- president of National Domestic Workers Alliance and director of Caring Across Generations, MacArthur "Genius" Award-winning organizer, member of the TIME 100, and author of The Age of Dignity

Amanda Ballantyne (Washington, DC) -- AFL-CIO’s director of the Technology Institute and director of the Working for America Institute, member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National AI Advisory Committee, former executive director of the Business Education Fund and its flagship program the Mainstreet Alliance

Amber Yang (Bay Area) -- investor at Bloomberg Beta, Forbes 30 under 30

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

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

Angela Hanks (Washington, DC) -- chief of programs at Demos, former Acting Assistant Secretary of the Employment and Training Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor, and former deputy executive director at the Groundwork Collaborative

Anmol Chaddha (Bay Area) -- principal at Omidyar Network, leads the Reimagining Capitalism team focused on technological stresses on social inequality

Annie Lowrey (Washington, DC) -- staff writer at The Atlantic focused on politics and the economy, author of Give People Money (shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year awards)

Auren Hoffman (Washington, DC) -- CEO of SafeGraph, a company focused on data about physical places; general partner at Flex Capital

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

Bruce Lewandowski (Baltimore) -- auxiliary Bishop in the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Vicar for Baltimore City and Vicar for Hispanic Catholics

Casey Moore (New York) -- communications director at Workers United Rochester Regional Joint Board, co-launched Starbucks workers’ unionizing efforts

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

Chris Wheat (Washington, DC / Baltimore) -- president of JPMorgan Chase Institute; previously faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management and the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Rutgers Business School

Damon Silvers (Washington, DC / London) -- 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

Dan Rosensweig (Bay Area) -- CEO and president of Chegg, the online learning platform; former COO at Yahoo!, CEO of Guitar Hero, and president of ZDNet

Darrell Owens (Bay Area) -- software engineer and author of 'The Discourse Lounge' on Substack; features in the New York Times and SF Chronicle; activist at East Bay for Everyone and CA YIMBY

Darrick Hamilton (New York) -- university professor, the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School; named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Group Health Foundation; been involved in crafting policy proposals including baby bonds, guaranteed income, and a federal job guarantee

David Weil (Boston) -- professor at Heller School for Social Policy and Management and the department of economics at Brandeis University; appointed by President Obama as the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor; author of five books including The Fissured Workplace

Delali Dzirasa (Baltimore) -- CEO and founder of Fearless, an impact-focused digital services integrator; founder of Hutch, a digital services incubator for underrepresented entrepreneurs; Vice Chair of the Governor’s Workforce Development Board and board member for Downtown Partnership of Baltimore; named one of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurs of the Year for the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Daily Record’s Most Admired CEOs, in the Baltimore Business Journal’s (BBJ) Power 10 list, and in the Black Business Review’s 40 under 40

Diana Tsai (Madeira / US) -- CEO and co-founder of Upwage, AI that provides hourly workers with pay transparency and meaningful work, while solving talent shortages for companies; Forbes 30 under 30

Elizabeth Kelly (Washington, DC) -- special assistant to the President for economic policy at the National Economic Council, former executive at Capital One Investing; early at United Income, acquired by Capital One in 2019

Faiz Shakir (Washington, DC) -- founder and executive director at non-profit media organization More Perfect Union and senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders; interim executive director at American Economic Liberties Project; formerly campaign manager for Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, former aide to Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, an editor-in-chief of the ThinkProgress blog, and political director of the American Civil Liberties Union

Gary Smith (London) -- general secretary at GMB Union, with more than 500,000 financial members, which he joined during a gas fitter apprenticeship at age 16

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 forthcoming book The Hammer about the American labor movement (early 2024)

Henry Farrell (Baltimore) -- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology; author of two books including Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security

Jacob Hsu (Baltimore) -- chairman at Just Economy, former CEO of numerous companies including Catalyte and Symbio; named by Chief Executive Magazine as one of the world's Top 12 Young Global Leaders of Tomorrow 

Jake Rosenfeld (St. Louis) -- 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, and 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, recognized as one of Insider’s Top 100 Seed Investors

Jamie Barton (Dallas) -- senior vice president global human resources & 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; bargained 5 contracts representing 20,000 employees in the last year

Janet Foutty (Chicago) -- former board chair of Deloitte US and previously served as CEO of Deloitte Consulting; chair of Bright Pink, and the National Semiconductor Technology Center Selection Committee; board member of The Chicago Network; and advisory boards of NYU Stern’s Tech MBA program and Indiana University Kelley School of Business Dean’s Council; author of bestselling book, Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership

Jaz Brisack (New York) -- organizing director at Workers United Upstate NY & VT, launched Starbucks workers’ unionizing efforts, Rhodes scholar; named by TIME as one of its Next Generation Leaders

Jensen Harris (Seattle) -- co-founder at Textio, former Microsoft user experience leader who designed many experiences within Office, Windows, and Surface

Jody Miller (Los Angeles) -- co-founder and former CEO and chairwoman at Business Talent Group, which sold to Heidrick & Struggles in 2021; venture partner with Maveron, and 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

Jose Garcia (New York) -- director of Future of Work(ers) team at the Ford Foundation; previously program officer for Strong Local Economies at the Surdna Foundation and policy fellow at the National Council of La Raza’s Wealth Building Policy Project; co-author of Foreclosure to Fair Lending: Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit

Josh Devon (Philadelphia) -- CEO of Sublime Strategy, which guides early- and growth-stage technology and cybersecurity companies, and co-founder and former COO of Flashpoint, a cybersecurity startup acquired in 2021

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

Julia Hobsbawm (London) -- columnist at Bloomberg Work Shift, author of The Nowhere Office and five other books; host of The Nowhere Office podcast; previously board member of the US-led Workforce Institute; chaired the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission; awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Birthday Honours List in 2015 for ‘Services to Business’

Julie Su (Washington, DC) -- acting Secretary of Labor at the Department of Labor; former Deputy Secretary; previously Secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and one of Harvard Law School’s 50 most noteworthy women alumni

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

Justin Label (Baltimore) -- managing director at Inner Loop Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity, cloud technologies, and data science

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) -- CEO & editor in chief of Charter, a future-of-work media and research company, formerly 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 2013 by Talking Biz News

Kevin O'Neil (Baltimore) -- managing director of New Frontiers at The Rockefeller Foundation; previously research fellow at the University of Cape Town, a fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, and a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute; served as a firefighter on four continents

Kimi Yoshino (Baltimore) -- editor in chief of The Baltimore Banner, former managing editor at the Los Angeles Times, guided a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into local government corruption; awardee from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for general excellence

Kristin Sverchek (Bay Area) -- president of Lyft and former general counsel among other senior roles; previously partner at Silicon Legal Strategy and Gunderson Dettmer

Larry Williams (Maryland) – creator behind Unionbase; held various leadership roles, notably executive director at both Labor Network for Sustainability and Black Men Vote

Lenore Palladino (Amherst, MA) -- assistant professor of economics & public policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of the forthcoming book Good Company on the political economy of corporations; fellow at the Roosevelt Institute; and former campaign director and organizer

Liba Rubenstein (Los Angeles) -- fellow at Aspen Institute, leading the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, former corporate social responsibility executive at 21st Century Fox, Tumblr and MySpace; board member of the Alliance for Youth Organizing; served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption

Lisa Conn (Los Angeles) -- CEO of Gatheround, an early-stage company focused on enabling meaningful remote team connections; led Facebook’s initiatives to reduce polarization and elevate public discourse; Forbes 30 under 30

Liz Shuler (Washington, DC) -- president of the AFL-CIO, the federation of 60 national and international unions that represent 12.5 million working people, and its first woman leader; longtime trade unionist

Liza Winship (New York) -- director of US and Canada driver operations at Uber; formerly chief of staff for global mobility at Uber

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

Louis Hyman (New York) -- Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations; a historian of work and business, author of Temp and four other books

Marie-Therese Connolly (Washington, DC) -- co-designer of the RISE model; president of the Elder Justice 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) -- 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; previously an executive producer and host at On Deck

Mary L. Gray (Boston) – senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research and faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, faculty of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University; MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning author and anthropologist in technology, digital economies, and society 

Mary Beth Maxwell (Washington, DC) -- program manager of Worker Power and Economic Justice at Open Society Foundations; founder of Workshop, Creative Executive Action for Worker Rights; former policy leader at U.S. Department of Labor; founding executive director of American Rights at Work; previously a field director at Jobs with Justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America and the United States Student Association; board member of the New World Foundation

Mary Kay Henry (Washington, DC) -- international president of the two million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the first woman to lead the union; one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, one of Fast Company’s 100 most creative leaders and Politico’s top 50 visionaries reshaping American politics

Matt Kramer (Minneapolis) -- CEO of The Wildflower Foundation, former president and co-CEO of Teach For America

Maureen Conway (Washington, DC) -- 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

Maurice Jones (Virginia) -- founder and CEO of MJConnects; former CEO of OneTen and president and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, which supports projects to revitalizing communities and economic opportunity for residents; Deputy Secretary of HUD in the Obama administration; Virginia Secretary of Commerce in the cabinet of Governor Terry McAuliffe

Michelle Rhee (Sacramento) -- co-founder of BuildWithin, former founder and CEO of StudentsFirst and The New Teacher Project; former Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, author of Radical: Fighting to Put Students First

Michael Tubbs (Los Angeles) -- founder of End Poverty in California (EPIC), Mayors for a Guaranteed Income; and Tubbs Ventures; was youngest mayor in US for Stockton, California; fellow at the MIT Media lab, Fortune’s Top 40 under 40, Forbes 30 under 30 All Star Alumni, and the “Most Valuable Mayor” by Nation Magazine

Natalie Foster (Bay Area) -- advocate for post-neoliberal economics, like a guaranteed income and anti-monopoly policy, president and 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 forthcoming book The Guarantee… and recommended we create this event in the first place!

Noah Smith (Bay Area) -- economist and author of ‘Noahpinion’ on Substack, previously wrote for publications including Bloomberg, Quartz, Associated Press, and the Atlantic

Oren Cass (Washington, DC) -- executive director of American Compass, former senior fellow for the Manhattan Institute; has regularly contributed to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, and National Review; author of The Once and Future Worker

Patrick McKenna (Austin, TX) -- founder of One America Works; currently serves as co-founder and executive chairman at Facet Wealth and partner at Comeback Capital 

Phela Townsend (Washington, DC) -- consultant at Innoshift Solutions; doctoral candidate and scholar-activist; former enterprise equity fellow at the Institute for the Future

Portia Wu (Baltimore) -- Secretary of Labor for the State of Maryland; led US public policy and handled labor/workforce public policy for Microsoft; former Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training at the U.S. Department of Labor; former special assistant and senior policy advisor to President Barack Obama for Labor and Workforce; former labor counsel for the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy

Randi Weingarten (Washington, DC) -- president of the American Federation of Teachers, former president of the United Federation of Teachers, named one of Washington’s Most Influential People by the Washingtonian, and previously named one of the most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years by the New York Observer

Rhea Wolfson (London) -- head of internal and industrial relations at GMB Union, overseeing equality and health and safety, previously sat on the Labour Party's National Executive Committee as the conference chair 

Robel Yemiru (Bay Area) -- co-founder and president of Lateral Energy, former head of product and engineering operations for Benchling

Roy Bahat (Bay Area) -- head of Bloomberg Beta; former co-founder of a venture-backed company, executive at News Corporation, and various roles in government, media, and nonprofits; faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business; commissioner on the California Governor's Future of Work Commission 

Sara Nelson (Washington, DC) -- international president of Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO; New York Times called her “America’s most powerful flight attendant” for role in 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; former faculty and director of the Hawkinson Institute of Business Finance at the College of Business at the University of Iowa

Sarita Gupta (Silver Spring, MD) -- vice president of US Programs at The Ford Foundation, former executive director of Jobs With Justice and co-director of Caring Across Generations; board member of Labor Network for Sustainability, Institute for Policy Studies, School of Labor and Urban Studies Foundation at CUNY and others; recipient of the National Women’s Law Center Annual Leadership Award, the Francis Perkins Open Door Award, and others; author of The Future We Need

Scott Heiferman (New York) -- co-founder and former CEO of Meetup, recipient of the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship; named an MIT Technology Review “Innovator of the Year”

Sean Gourley (Bay Area) -- founder Primer.ai, board member at Anadarko; former co-founder and chief technology officer at Quid; Rhodes Scholar; former political advisor and TED fellow; two-time New Zealand track and field champion; member of the Knight Commission

Shelly Steward (Eugene, Oregon) -- director of Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, participatory researcher with The Workers Lab, lead author of the ‘Gig Economy Data Hub’ with Cornell University’s ILR School; research affiliate of the Fairwork project of the Oxford Internet Institute

Siena Chiang (Los Angeles) -- independent strategist/consultant; previously 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

Sohrab Ahmari (New York) -- founder and editor of Compact, contributing writer for The New Statesman; and author of four books, most recently, Tyranny, Inc.

Suzi LeVine (Seattle) -- former US Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and commissioner for the Employment Security Department; previously co-founder for the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington and The Kavana Cooperative; director at Microsoft and winner of the Microsoft Alumni Foundation “Beacon Award” among others

Tim Delisle (Portland) -- founder of Fiveonefour; advisor, Point72 Ventures; former vice president of engineering at Nike; previously founder of Datalogue, acquired by Nike

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

Tyler Cowen (Fairfax County, VA) -- professor of economics at George Mason University, columnist for Bloomberg and the NY Times, and a “Top Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine and “most influential economists over the past decade” by The Economist, author of five books including The Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero 

Wells King (Washington, DC) -- senior policy advisor at the office of Senator JD Vance and former research director at American Compas; previously policy advisor to Senator Mike Lee on the Joint Economic Committee and the Social Capital Projects

Wes Moore (Baltimore) -- Governor of Maryland, author of two books including The Other Wes Moore, and former CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation

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

Zach Seward (New York) -- co-founder and former editor in chief, chief product officer, and CEO of Quartz; former editor at Wall Street Journal, associate editor of Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab; adjunct professor at NYU and Columbia’s journalism schools; recipient of Crain's 40 Under 40 in New York business, Forbes 30 Under 30 in media, National Awards for Education Reporting and others

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