Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo
蒲艾真
Born1974 (age 5051)
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseGeorge Goehl
RelativesMu-ming Poo (father)
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship

Ai-jen Poo (/ˌ ɛn ˈp/, Chinese: 蒲艾真; pinyin: Pú Àizhēn; born 1974) is an American labor activist. She is the president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is also the director of Caring Across Generations, a national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working to transform the long-term care system in the US, with a focus on the needs of aging Americans, people with disabilities, and their caregivers.

She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. In February 2015, the New Press released her book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. She has been mentioned as a potential future Secretary of Labor under a Democratic administration.