Ai-jen Poo
Ai-jen Poo was born in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA. She has worked as a labour organiser for twenty years, transforming the landscape of working conditions and labour standards for domestic or private-household workers. Poo is executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and a co-director of Caring Across Generations. In 2012, she was listed as one of TIME's 100 most influential people and, in 2014, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Her first book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, was published in 2015.