Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo is the Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. She is an award-winning activist and social innovator, and a leading voice in domestic workers’ rights and family care advocacy. Ai-jen’s accolades include recognition as a 2014 MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellow and a 2013 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, and TIME. She is author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. While at the Mesa Refuge, Ai-jen worked on an article about a new concept called Universal Family Care.

Ai-jen’s spring 2020 articles include: “Domestic Workers Take Care of Us. Now, It’s Time for Us to Take Care of Them (Time magazine); “Protect Workers from Coronavirus” (March opinion piece in the New York Times); and an April interview with Mesa Refuge Alum Krista Tippett (the On Being Project).