Constructing a New Social Compact: Speakers

Jamaal Bowman

United States Representative, New York’s 16th Congressional District

Plenary: Rebuilding with Care: The Infrastructure of Equity

Sharan Burrow

General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation

Plenary: Future of Workers and Democracy

Rebecca Cokley

Disability Rights Program Officer, Office of the President, Ford Foundation

Plenary: Rebuilding Care with Equity at the Center

Catherine Coleman-Flowers

Director, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice

Plenary: An Economy for People and Planet: What Would it Take?

Fatima Goss Graves

President, National Women’s Law Center


Plenary: Rebuilding with Care: The Infrastructure of Equity

Sarita Gupta


Director, Future of Work(ers) Program, Ford Foundation


Plenary: Future of Workers and Democracy

Mary Kay Henry

President, Service Employees International Union

Closing: Building Toward a New Social Compact

Rev. Alvin Herring

Executive Director, Faith in Action

Closing: Building Toward a New Social Compact

Lauren Jacobs

Partnership for Working Families

Closing: Building Toward a New Social Compact

William Jones

Professor, University of Minnesota


Plenary: Getting It Right This Time: Discussing the New Social Compact in the PRO Act Moment

Thomas Kochan

Co-Director, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research

Closing: Building Toward a New Social Compact

Reyna Lopez Osuna

Executive Director, PCUN


Plenary: Getting It Right This Time: Discussing the New Social Compact in the PRO Act Moment

Chris Lu

Senior Fellow, UVA Miller Center

Plenary: Future of Workers and Democracy

Merrie Najimy

President, Massachusetts Teachers Association

Panel: Higher Education: Building Civil Societies through Common Good Bargaining Approaches

Sara Nelson

President, AFA-CWA


Plenary: An Economy for People and Planet: What Would it Take?

Ai-jen Poo


Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Plenary: Rebuilding Care with Equity at the Center

Erica Smiley


Executive Director, Jobs with Justice

Plenary: Getting It Right This Time: A Roundtable Discussion on the New Social Compact

Samir Sonti

Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Plenary: An Economy for People and Planet: What Would it Take?

William Spriggs


Chief Economist, AFL-CIO

Plenary: Getting It Right This Time: Discussing the New Social Compact in the PRO Act Moment

Dorian Warren

President, Center for Community Change

Plenary: Rebuilding Care with Equity at the Center

Randi Weingarten

President, American Federation of Teachers

Panel: Bargaining for the Common Good and the Fight for a New Social Compact in K-12 Education