The Economic Security Project is expanding

We’re excited to announce three additions to the team at the Economic Security Project: Taylor Jo Isenberg as Managing Director, Andy Stern as Senior Fellow and the formation of our Steering Committee.

We’re thrilled to welcome Taylor Jo Isenberg who is uniquely qualified for her new position as Managing Director of ESP, given her long record of fighting for economic progress. She joins us from the Roosevelt Institute, where she led the country’s largest network of young, emerging thinkers and doers committed to redefining the economic rules. Under her leadership, the National Network received the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

Taylor Jo’s role at ESP will be to ensure that our goals are met and our organization runs smoothly and effectively.

Andy Stern, President Emeritus of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), will also be joining the ESP as a Senior Fellow. Andy’s experience representing 2.2 million janitors, child care, home care, and health care workers informs his work to combat the effects of technology and automation on the everyday worker. Andy’s new book, Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Restore the American Dream, is a declaration of the benefits of basic income in the 21st century, the prospective, drastic changes in our future economy, and why we must work to ensure economic security for all. Additionally, Andy was a Presidential Appointee on the Simpson-Bowles Commission and now serves as the Ronald O. Perelman Senior Fellow at Columbia University. We’re thrilled to welcome Andy to the team.

We’re also announcing the creation of ESP’s Steering Committee. The Steering Committee’s membership consists of 12 industry leaders, whose diverse, expansive backgrounds range from technology, science, philosophy, research, economics, and social policy. The Steering Committee will advise on strategy around projects we fund and Economic Security Project’s fundraising. We’re confident that this committee will provide the Economic Security Project with experienced voices committed to furthering the conversation around a universal basic income.

We’re pleased to welcome the following leaders to our Steering Committee: Roy Bahat, Peter Barnes, Juliana Bidadanure, Misha Chellam, Ben Goldhirsh, Kaitlyn Krieger, Tom Matzzie, Serkan Piantino, Hemant Taneja, Albert Wenger, Felicia Wong, and Andy Stern. Chris Hughes, Dorian Warren, and Natalie Foster (that’s me) continue to serve as co-chairs of the project.

In welcoming Taylor Jo, Andy Stern and the Steering Committee, we’re optimistic about our work to ask and answer big questions around economic security in the U.S.