Alison Omens is the Chief Strategy Officer at JUST Capital. She is responsible for setting and implementing strategy to achieve mission impact for the organization. Her work includes overseeing programs, revenue, partnerships, development, and strategic engagement with companies, investors, foundations, and nonprofits. She has orchestrated program collaborations with BlackRock, the Aspen Institute, Harvard Business School, and others.  Alison was most recently Advisor for Private Sector Engagement to U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez.

Patrick Oakford is the Senior Manager for Programs and Engagement at JUST Capital. He is responsible for JUST’s programmatic work on workplace issues, focusing on increasing economic opportunities for frontline and contract workers. Prior to joining JUST, Patrick was a Senior Policy Advisor in Governor Cuomo’s office.

Lawrence Mishel is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) after serving as president from 2002–2017. Mishel first joined EPI in 1987 as Director of Research. His leadership has helped build it into one of the nation’s premier research organization focused on U.S. living standards and labor markets.

Adam Seth Litwin is Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History in the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) School at Cornell University and serves as an associate editor at the ILR Review.  His research examines technological change and the determinants and impact of labor relations structures.  Litwin also writes on iss

Kyung Min Lee is a Junior Professional Officer at Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank Group. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His research studies entrepreneurship, firm growth, innovation, technology adoption, and labor market outcomes. For his research he analyzes large firm-level surveys and administrative databases.

Dmitri Koustas is an Assistant Professor at The Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He specializes in labor economics and macroeconomics, with research areas in the “future of work” and household finance. An important vein of his research focuses on measuring and understanding the reasons why households participate in alternative work arrangements like the gig economy.

John Horton is the Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Information Technologies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Susan Helper is the Carlton Professor of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She was formerly chief economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce and a member of the White House staff.

Beth Gutelius is the Research Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Senior Researcher at the Great Cities Institute. Her academic and consulting career has focused on urban economic development, labor markets, and the changing nature of employment.

Erica Groshen is Senior Labor Economics Advisor at Cornell University--ILR, Research Fellow at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and serves as a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Council and the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.