Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo is President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Executive Director of Caring Across Generations. An organizer, advocate, and cultural strategist, she has spent more than 25 years building a movement to change the way our country values and supports caregiving and care work. Her leadership on the care economy and the future of work has earned wide recognition, including a MacArthur Fellowship and selection as one of Fortune’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” and TIME’s “100 Most Influential People.” She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, serves as a Trustee of the Ford Foundation, and was a 2025-2026 Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics. 

National Domestic Workers Alliance

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the leading voice for dignity and fairness for millions of domestic workers in the United States. Founded in 2007, NDWA works for respect, recognition, and inclusion in labor protections for domestic workers, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of color. The alliance is powered by more than 70 affiliate organizations and local chapters and a growing membership of nannies, house cleaners, and care workers across the country. In March 2026, NDWA launched Ask Aya, an AI-powered digital personal assistant built by and for domestic workers and trained on decades of collective wisdom and movement knowledge. Aya puts the knowledge workers need to earn more, protect themselves on the job, and build long-term economic security directly in their hands, and connects them to a movement that makes those gains last.