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• Adam Blumenthal (New York) -- founder, co-managing partner, and chairman of Blue Wolf Capital Partners; former First Deputy Comptroller for New York City; served as independent trustee and chair of the investment committee for the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust; advisory board member for Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance and Lecturer in the Practice of Management

• 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

• Allison Zelman (Washington, DC) -- chief of Staff at U.S. Department of Labor; previously director of Climate and Clean Energy Advocacy & Policy at Gates Ventures, director of states at DNC and presidential appointments on the Biden-Harris transition team

• Alvaro Bedoya (Rockville, MD) -- commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission; founder of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law; established the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy as its first chief counsel; co-founder of the Esperanza Education Fund

• 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

• Amanda Renteria (Piedmont, CA) -- CEO of Code for America; previously served as national political director for Secretary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, chief operating officer for the California Department of Justice, and the first Latina chief of staff in the U.S. Senate; frequently interviewed on ABC and BBC to discuss U.S. government policy and politics

• Amanda Stent (New York) -- head of AI strategy and research at Bloomberg; former inaugural director of the Davis Institute for AI at Colby College, director of research and principal research scientist at Yahoo, principal member of technical staff at AT&T Labs, and associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University; board co-chair of CRA-WP and an ABET commissioner; former founding co-editor-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review and member of the National Academies Committee on Responsible Computing Research

• Amber Yang (San Francisco) -- investor at Bloomberg Beta, Forbes 30 Under 30

• Andy Levin (Detroit) -- founder of Lean & Green Michigan; former U.S. Congressman, union organizer, and leader in state and federal agencies

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

• Aneesh Raman (San Francisco) -- chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn; former senior economic advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom, head of economic impact at Facebook, and speechwriter for President Obama and the Treasury Secretary during the economic crisis; former CNN correspondent in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, where he spent two years as a war correspondent in Iraq

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

• Anna Berger (New York) -- co-founder and CEO of Trayd, a construction payroll and compliance platform; previously co-founder of Curtn

• Anna Sale (Berkeley) -- journalist and host of the interview podcast Death, Sex & Money from Slate; former political reporter; author of Let's Talk About Hard Things and writer of the weekly Substack newsletter From Somewhere

• Anne-Marie Slaughter (Washington, DC) -- CEO of New America; former dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; first woman director of policy planning for the United States Department of State; former professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School

• Avi Zenilman (Brooklyn) -- co-founder of Tavern Research, an AI startup; former journalist, infectious disease nurse, and researcher; former senior advisor for philanthropic and political organizations funded primarily by Sam Bankman-Fried, focusing on disease outbreak prevention, biotechnology regulation, and improving journalism

• Bailey Evans (Brooklyn) -- executive director of strategic operations at The New York Times, leading efforts on the responsible deployment of AI

• 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

• Brad Stone (San Francisco) -- editor of Bloomberg Businessweek; former head of Bloomberg's global technology coverage; author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon among other books

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

• Camiel Irving (Washington, DC) -- 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

• Casey Moore (Buffalo) -- establishing a new organization, the Inside Organizer School; communications director at Workers United Rochester Regional Joint Board; co-launched Starbucks workers’ unionizing efforts

• Chai Feldblum (Rehoboth Beach, DE) -- vice chair of the AbilityOne Commission, an independent federal agency promoting employment for people with significant disabilities; former commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 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

• Chris Griswold (Washington, DC) -- policy director at American Compass; former senior advisor in the U.S. Senate; 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 staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a 2023 Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Tokyo; co-founded a nationwide youth development nonprofit in South Africa

• Chris Hyams* (Austin) -- 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) -- president of JPMorgan Chase Institute; former faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management and the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Rutgers Business School

• CJ Grimes (Portland) -- founder and chief executive of WorkMoney, nonprofit focused on improving the financial security of Americans; former national organizing and digital director for SEIU

• 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

• Dan Manian (New York) -- CEO and co-founder of Donut, an employee experience platform; former VP of product at Sookasa; held multiple roles at Luidia

• Daniel Davies (Exeter, UK) -- author of The Unaccountability Machine, exploring the application of complex systems analysis and information theory to management and economics; former stock analyst and economist

• Daniel Diermeier (Nashville) -- ninth chancellor of Vanderbilt University; political scientist and management scholar; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Guggenheim Foundation; former provost of the University of Chicago; author of five books including Reputation Analytics: Public Opinion for Companies

• Daniela Perlein (Los Angeles) -- co-founder of goTenna, a mobile mesh networking company; launched a national grassroots project to increase voter access to information; former journalist and community organizer

• David Michaels (Washington, DC) -- 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; served on the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board

• Deep Ganguli (San Francisco) -- 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 (Burlington, VT) -- author, applied researcher, and advisor focused on how economic power and paradigms shape our world; advises governments, financial institutions, companies, and nonprofits on antitrust, economic policy, and new economic thinking; Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment; 2024 McGill University Max Bell School of Public Policy Lecturer, and co-author of The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians and The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (an FT best book of 2018)

• Dug Song (Ann Arbor) -- co-founder of the Song Foundation and former co-founder & 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 for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on racial justice and economic equity

• Dylan Matthews (Washington, DC) -- reporter at Vox covering economic policy, domestically and globally

• Elizabeth Kelly (Washington, DC) -- director of the U.S. AI Safety Institute at the National Institute of Standards and Technology; former special assistant to the President for economic policy at the National Economic Council, executive at Capital One Investing; early at United Income, acquired by Capital One in 2019

• Elizabeth Wilkins (Washington, DC) -- 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

• Felicia Wong (New York) -- president/CEO of Roosevelt Institute; vice chair of the Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity; former US representative on the G7 Economic Resilience Panel in 2021; served on the Biden-Harris administration transition advisory board

• Fred Benenson (New York) -- general partner at venture capital firm TwentyTwo; former VP of Data (and second employee) at Kickstarter, and 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 acquired by the Library of Congress; has written for The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, WIRED, and 2600; former leader in the Students for Free Culture movement; board member of Rhizome.org

• Galen Hines-Pierce (Houston) -- philanthropist and policy entrepreneur focused on strengthening state capacity and government reform; founder and principal of the Minerva Fund; former civil servant administering federal programs to support workers and communities impacted by deindustrialization and global trade

• Hamilton Nolan (Brooklyn) -- 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 (Charlottesville, VA) -- 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, DC) -- 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

• Henry Farrell (Washington, DC) -- professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University; 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

• Howard Wolfson (New York) -- education program lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies; runs Mike Bloomberg’s Super PAC; former New York City deputy mayor for government affairs and communications; former communications director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and chief of staff to Congresswoman Nita Lowey and executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; former advisor to leaders including Charles Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Andrew Cuomo

• 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* (San Francisco) -- 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 (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

• Jason Solomon (Redwood City, CA) -- 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 (Marin City, CA) -- practitioner in residence at UC Berkeley Labor Center, working on establishing a new organization, the Inside Organizer School; named by TIME as one of its Next Generation Leaders; former organizing director at Workers United Upstate NY & VT, launched Starbucks workers’ unionizing efforts; forthcoming author of Get on the Job and Organize

• Jed Kolko (New York) -- former under secretary for economic affairs at the Department of Commerce in the Biden-Harris Administration, serving as the principal economic advisor to Secretary Gina Raimondo; launched the Regional Economic Research Initiative and oversaw the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis; previously chief economist at Indeed and Trulia, and regular contributor to The New York Times’ Upshot section and Slow Boring

• Jeremy Bird (San Francisco) -- executive vice president of driver experience at Lyft; co-founder of 270 Strategies, a political, corporate, and nonprofit consulting firm; former national field director for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign; former field director at United Food and Commercial Workers

• Jerry Muller (Silver Spring, MD) -- 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

• Jerry Neumann (Hoboken, NJ) -- co-author of Founder vs Investor; professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia University; longtime startup investor at Neu Venture Capital; former co-founder Root Markets

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

• 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 Eidelson (San Francisco) -- 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) -- writer, consultant, and broadcaster on work; host of The Nowhere Office podcast; author of Working Assumptions, a compilation of her columns for Bloomberg’s WorkShift, and others; former board member of the US-led Workforce Institute; chaired inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission

• Julie Su (Washington, DC) -- acting U.S. Secretary of Labor; 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; director of the New American Industrial Alliance, political writer and contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post

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

• Justin Slaughter (Washington, DC) -- vice president of regulatory affairs at Paradigm; former director of the office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs and senior advisor to Acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair; former chief policy advisor and special counsel to Commodity Futures Trading Commission; former general counsel to Senator Edward J. Markey

• 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

• Katelyn Walker Mooney (Washington, DC) -- acting Assistant Secretary for Labor Policy; previously director of the Department of Labor’s Good Jobs Initiative and associate General Counsel for the Committee on Education and Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives

• Kevin Delaney (New York) -- CEO & 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

• Kevin Slavin (New York) -- head of creative, marketing, and communications at Gingko Biosecurity; founding editor, Journal of Design and Science at The MIT Press; former Chief Science and Technology Officer at The Shed NYC, faculty at MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of area/code (acquired to become NYC office of Zynga)

• Larry Williams* (Gaithersburg, MD) -- creator behind Unionbase; held various leadership roles, notably executive director at both Labor Network for Sustainability and Black Men Vote

• Leah Hunt-Hendrix (Miami) -- co-lead for donor organizing project Democracy Takes Work, co-founder and current chair of Way to Win; co-founder of donor organizing network Solidaire, co-author of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea; board member of Action Center on Race and the Economy; PhD in religion, ethics, and politics at Princeton

• Leticia Landa (San Francisco) -- executive director of La Cocina, a nonprofit food business incubator supporting primarily immigrant women and women-of-color entrepreneurs; inspired similar incubators worldwide; co-author of We Are La Cocina, a cookbook featuring stories and recipes from program entrepreneurs; La Cocina was named a 2023 California Nonprofit of the Year by the California Association of Nonprofits

• Liba Rubenstein* (Los Angeles) -- leads the Aspen Institute's Business Roundtable on Organized Labor; former head of corporate social responsibility 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

• Lisa Conn (Los Angeles) -- CEO and co-founder 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

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

• Lucrecia Borgonovo (New York) -- chief talent and organizational effectiveness officer at Mastercard; former leader at Nike and Bristol-Myers Squibb; trustee of the Young People’s Chorus of NYC

• Marie-Therese Connolly (Washington, DC) -- 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* (Austin) -- 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 (Oakland) -- 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 Modern Times on Substack

• Mary L. Gray (Cambridge, MA) -- 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

• 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

• Max Simkoff (San Francisco) -- founder of Doma (formerly NYSE: DOMA), a housing technology company; former founder and CEO of Evolv, acquired by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD); board member of Keystone Strategy; member of the JVS non-profit board

• Mike Carney (Washington, DC) -- 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

• Misha Chellam (Alameda, CA) -- founder of Abundance Network and Tradecraft

• Misty Heggeness (Kansas City) -- associate professor of economics and public affairs, associate research scientist at the KU Institute for Policy and Social Research, and co-director of the Kansas Population Center; former researcher in the federal government on statistical innovation, gender, poverty, inequality, and the high-skilled workforce; oversaw the Biomedical Research and Development Price Index and the Census Frames project; forthcoming author of SWIFTYNOMICS: Women in Today's Economy (2025)

• Molly Kinder (Washington, DC) -- fellow at the Brookings Institution, leading a project on generative AI, work, and workers; former nonresident senior fellow at New America and research director for its Work, Workers, and Technology initiative; professor of practice at Georgetown University; co-founder and former vice president of policy for the Global Innovation Fund; former director of a new innovation program at USAID during the Obama administration

• Natalie Foster* (Oakland) -- 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 The Guarantee… and recommended we create [Going to Work] in the first place!

• Neidi Dominguez Zamorano (Albuquerque) -- 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 9; 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

• Oren Cass (Lenox, MA) -- 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

• Peter Rojas* (San Francisco) -- founder of Gizmodo/Gawker Media & 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 VP of Strategy at AOL

• 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

• Pronita Gupta (Washington, DC) -- senior fellow at Workshop, focused on labor and worker rights issues; former special assistant to President Biden for labor and workers on the Domestic Policy Council, director of job quality at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and deputy director of the Women’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor during the Obama Administration; board member for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS)

• Randi Weingarten (New York) -- 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 one of the most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years by the New York Observer

• Ron Bloom (Mamaroneck, NY) -- vice-chair and managing partner at Brookfield and general partner at Commonweal Ventures; former leader at Brookfield, Lazard, and portfolio company boards; 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* (San Francisco) -- 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 (Hillsborough, CA) -- founder/CEO of Larridin; Vice Chairman of Carbon Health; former founder of Dynamic Signal and Adify; former board member of comScore, TubeMogul, Udemy

• Samuel Cole (New York) -- managing partner and co-founder of Stonecutter Ventures; former president and co-founder of Phigital; former COO and managing partner at BlueMountain Capital Management, associate principal at McKinsey, and defense and private equity analyst; active on non-profit boards including Success Academy Charter Schools and Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

• Sara Nelson (Washington, DC) -- 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 (San Francisco) -- partner, COO, and chief compliance officer of Glynn Capital; co-founder of District 9 Neighbors for Housing and board member of SF YIMBY

• Sharon Kleinbaum (New York) --  first spiritual leader of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ synagogue, Congregation Bet Simchat Torah, from which she retired in July 2024 after over 30 years as senior rabbi; named among the most influential rabbis in America by Huffington Post, Newsweek, the Forward, and the Jewish Week; twice appointed to United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; former Commissioner on New York City’s Commission on Human Rights

• Shelly Steward (Eugene, OR) -- chief research officer at The Workers Lab; former director of Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative; lead author of the Gig Economy Data Hub; research affiliate of the Fairwork project of the Oxford Internet Institute

• Siena Chiang (Los Angeles) -- independent strategist/consultant and co-lead for donor organizing project 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

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

• Stacey Abrams (Atlanta) -- 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; currently senior advisor at Rewiring America

• Steve Newman (Portola Valley, CA) -- founder of AI Soup, a nonprofit fostering better discussions about AI; software engineer and technical founder of eight startups, including Writely (Google Docs); former engineering lead at Google; active supporter of climate change mitigation efforts and policy advisor to the DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis; writing about AI at Am I Stronger Yet

• Steven Teles (Washington, DC) -- professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University; senior fellow at the Niskanen Center; author of The Captured Economy: How The Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality

• 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

• Tom Kochan (Jamaica Plain, MA) -- 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

• Willa Seldon (San Francisco) -- 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

• Wilma Liebman (Washington, DC) -- 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

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