Ai-jen Poo is a nationally recognized organizer, advocate, and movement leader dedicated to transforming how the United States values caregiving and care work. She serves as President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Executive Director of Caring Across Generations, where she has spent more than 25 years advancing policies, systems, and cultural change that support caregivers, care workers, and families.

Poo began her organizing career alongside domestic workers in New York City and helped found Domestic Workers United, a multiracial coalition of nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers. The organization played a pivotal role in securing the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (2010), the first law in the nation to guarantee basic labor protections and rights for domestic workers.

In 2007, she co-founded the National Domestic Workers Alliance, bringing together domestic worker leaders from across the country to build a unified movement. Under her leadership, NDWA has grown into an alliance of more than 70 affiliate organizations and a community of over 400,000 workers, helping advance domestic worker bills of rights in 13 states, two cities, and the District of Columbia.

Poo also founded Caring Across Generations in 2011, a national organization working to reimagine care in America and strengthen support for caregiving at every stage of life. The organization has advanced cultural representation efforts, driven policy investments nationwide, and helped secure historic federal action to expand care infrastructure.

A leading voice on the care economy, Poo is a MacArthur Fellow, has been named one of Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, and is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. She currently serves as a Trustee of the Ford Foundation and a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics.