Natalie Foster, economist and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, will be joining us on campus to talk about her latest book, The Guarantee: The Fight for America’s Next Economy. The book explores the idea of an America where access to healthcare, housing, education, care, and work are guaranteed by the government. What would this model look like, and is it really that far-fetched?
Sharon Block, Professor of Practice at HLS and Executive Director of CLJE, will deliver opening remarks. The discussion will be moderated by CLJE’s Director of Innovation, Michelle Miller. RSVP is required, and lunch will be provided.
ABOUT NATALIE FOSTER
Natalie Foster is the President and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, a network dedicated to advancing a guaranteed income in America and reining in the unprecedented concentration of corporate power, and a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative.
Prior to that she was the CEO and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for people–driven economic change, with Van Jones. Foster served as digital director for President Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA) and the Democratic National Committee. She built the first digital department at the Sierra Club and served as the deputy organizing director for MoveOn.org. She’s been awarded fellowships at the Institute for the Future, Rockwood Leadership Institute and New America California, and is a board member of the California Budget and Policy Center, the Change.org global foundation and Liberation in a Generation, a project to close the racial wealth gap. She grew up a preacher’s daughter in Kansas, and is currently raising her family in Oakland, CA.
