Ai-jen Poo (, Chinese: 蒲艾眞; pinyin: Pú Àizhēn; born 1974) is an American labor activist. She is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is also the co-director of Caring Across Generations, a national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working to transform the long-term care system in the US, with a focus on the needs of aging Americans, people with disabilities, and their caregivers.
Ai-jen Poo (, Chinese: 蒲艾眞; pinyin: Pú Àizhēn; born 1974) is an American labor activist. She is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is then the co-director of Caring Across Generations, a national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations enthusiastic to transform the long-term care system in the US, with a focus on the needs of aging Americans, people past disabilities, and their caregivers.
She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Award. In February 2015, The New Press released her book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. She has been mentioned as a potential vanguard Secretary of Labor below a Democratic Administration.
Ai-jen Poo’s Taiwanese-American parents instilled her next strong “social justice values”. Her dad Mu-ming Poo is a neuroscientist and one-time political protester who emigrated from Taiwan in the 1970s. Her mommy Wen-jen Hwu has a PhD in chemistry as competently as an MD, and was an oncologist at two of the summit cancer centers in the nation. She was born in Pittsburgh, and graduated from Phillips Academy in 1992 and Columbia University, where she was one of beyond 100 students who occupied the rotunda in Low Library; this pastime led to the introduction of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
She attended the 75th Golden Globe Awards in 2018 as a guest of Meryl Streep.