Ai-jen Poo

Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)

**Ai-jen Poo** is director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and co-director of the Caring Across Generations campaign, has been organizing immigrant women workers since 1996. In 2000 she co-founded Domestic Workers United, the New York organization that spearheaded the successful passage of the state’s historic Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in 2010. In 2007, DWU helped organize the first national domestic workers’ convening, out of which formed the NDWA. As co-director of Caring Across Generations, Ai-jen leads a movement that is inspiring thousands of careworkers, parents,grandparents, grandchildren, and lawmakers to work together to ensure that all people can mature in this country with dignity, security, and independence. Ai-jen serves on the Board of Directors of Momsrising, National Jobs with Justice, Working America, and the National Council on Aging. She is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow, a 2013 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and was named to TIME’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Other accolades include the Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision Award, the Independent Sector American Express NGen Leadership Award, and \_Newsweek’s\_ 150 Fearless Women list.