Ai-jen Poo
Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Ai-jen Poo is executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of the Caring Across Generations campaign. She has been organizing immigrant women workers for over two decades, forging pathways to sustainable, quality jobs for the caregiving workforce and working to ensure access to affordable care for the nation’s aging populations. Poo is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. A 2014 MacArthur Fellow and one of Fortune.com’s World’s Greatest Leaders, she is a recipient of a Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision Award and the Independent Sector American Express NGen Leadership Award.
Previously
2018 Festival
Deep Dive: #MeToo — The Movement
Video — 1h 32m 13s
Spotlight Health Closing Session
Video — 1h 34m 37s
2017 Health
Three Caregivers Walk into a Bar: Caregiving, Improvisation, and Humor
Audio — 59m
2017 Health
Deep Dive: Growing a Global Health Workforce
Video — 1h 23m 10s
2017 Health
The Jobs of Tomorrow: Upskilling Care
Audio — 59m
2015 Festival
Advice From Women Who Lead
Video — 46m 3s