Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo has been organizing immigrant women workers in New York since 1996. From 2000-2009 she helped found and served as Lead Organizer for Domestic Workers United, an organization of nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end oppression for all. DWU helped to organize the first national meeting of domestic workers organizations at the U.S. Social Forum in 2007, which resulted in the formation of the National Domestic Worker Alliance. Ai-jen Poo also serves on the Board of Social Justice Leadership, the Labor Advisory Board at Cornell ILR School, and the New Labor Forum. A recent recipient of the Alston Bannerman Fellowship for Organizers of Color, she is currently on sabbatical.