Ai-jen Poo
Ai-jen Poo is a TED speaker who has written 1 quality-verified book, paired here with their talk.
Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of Caring Across Generations. Under her leadership, domestic workers won eight state Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and federal overtime and minimum wage protections for more than two million home care workers. She is also an influential voice in the Me Too and women's movements, including participating in the Times Up action at the 2018 Golden Globes. She is a 2014 MacArthur "genius" Fellow and a TIME 100 alumna and has been a featured speaker at the United State of Women Summits, Aspen Ideas Festivals, the Obama Foundation Summit and the 2018 Women’s Convention. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME and CNN.com. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America.
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What books has Ai-jen Poo written?
Ai-jen Poo has written 1 book in the Books Worth Reading catalogue: "The age of dignity". It is quality-verified and paired with their TED talk.
What does Ai-jen Poo write about?
Ai-jen Poo's books on Books Worth Reading cover Health & Wellness.
What is Ai-jen Poo known for?
Ai-jen Poo's distinctive intellectual contribution lies in her ability to connect intimate, domestic labor with broad systemic inequality, revealing how the treatment of care workers reflects deeper failures in how societies value human dignity. Through her work with the National Domestic Workers Al...
What is Ai-jen Poo's TED talk?
Ai-jen Poo's TED talk is "The work that makes all other work possible" (2018). It is paired with their book on Books Worth Reading.