Natalie Foster
Natalie Foster
Guarantee Galvanizer
Oakland, CA
@nataliefoster
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Leadership
Economic Equity
Future of Work
Natalie is a leading architect of the movement to build an inclusive and resilient economy that works for all. Her book The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for the America’s Next Economy chronicles the social policy we need in the age of AI. She’s co-founder and President of Economic Security Project, and has decades of experience at the intersection of social movements and meaningful policy change. Natalie’s early investments kicked off the first two guaranteed income pilots in Stockton, CA and Jackson, MS that paved the way for a cascade of over 150+ guaranteed income pilots nationwide. A senior fellow with Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, she’s transformed and run some of the largest digital teams in the country, including President Obama’s successful effort to pass health reform as the digital director for Organizing for America, and Rebuild the Dream, a platform for people–driven economic change, with co-founder Van Jones.
Her magic power is getting unusual suspects–Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and labor organizers, Congressmen and libertarian techies–in a room together, talking and finding common ground. Whether speaking to a roundtable of mayors from across the country or a room full of philanthropists, she’s always looking for the actionable solutions for a better collective future. The daughter of a preacher from Kansas, Natalie comes by her gift of gab honestly. She speaks frequently on the future of work, the social safety net, and the economy we deserve on conference stages as well as at colleges and universities throughout the world.
I want a world where everybody has the ability to spend time with those that they love. To be with their families whoever they define that. That's all possible here in the richest nation on earth, if we invest in the guarantees.
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