Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo is the director and co-founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the leading non-profit organization working to bring domestic workers dignity and fairness. In 2011, Ai-jen launched Caring Across Generations to unite American families in a campaign to achieve bold solutions to the nation’s crumbling care infrastructure. In 2019, Ai-jen co-founded SuperMajority, a new home for women’s activism, training, and mobilizing a multiracial, intergenerational community who will fight for gender equity together. Ai-jen serves as a Senior Advisor to Care in Action, a member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored Partnership for Mobility from Poverty and serves as a trustee of the Ford Foundation and a member of the Democratic National Committee.

ActivismNovember 8, 2016

10 Things Progressives Need to Do Now

Starting November 9, we have our work cut out for us.

Ai-jen Poo
ActivismJuly 13, 2015

What’s Next for the Domestic Workers Movement?

Five years after passing a breakthrough bill of rights, activists are building power and sharpening their legislative strategy.

Ai-jen Poo and Andrea Cristina Mercado
Immigration PolicyApril 15, 2013

OpinionNation: Immigration Activists and Experts on Their ‘Dealbreakers’ on Immigration Reform

A fair path to citizenship, an end to deportations, a better temporary worker program, immigration reform that works for women—three activists and a policy expert talk about what the reform bill must include.

Sarahi Uribe , Kica Matos , Ai-jen Poo and Janice Fine
Election 2012October 2, 2012

A Politics of Love

In this election and after, we need to write a new story for our changing nation that places care and connection at the center.

Ai-jen Poo
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