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# Ai-jen Poo

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## Ai-jen Poo


Ai-jen Poo is the president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, president of Care in Action, and the executive director of Caring Across Generations.


## Ai-jen Poo


Articles 6Collections 3

* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3c94155edbb2883/6aa7772c40a0cf2fdeaf1d73/Gloria-Steinem-1990.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 14, 2026  
### [What It Was Like to Know Gloria Steinem](https://time.com/article/2026/09/14/what-it-was-like-to-know-gloria-steinem/)  
Gloria Steinem “recognized value and power where others didn’t,” writes Ai-jen Poo.  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt565ee9ffe76ee45f/69e04ccefd89ad4b087d5533/Donald-Trump-Gold.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 16, 2026  
### [Trump Has Abandoned His Affordability Promises](https://time.com/article/2026/04/16/trump-has-abandoned-his-affordability-promises/)  
Trump’s decision to fund war abroad instead of care for families at home isn’t just a dangerous mist...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Lakeisha Rollins checks in on her son Amari, age 8, as he does remote summer school work in her apartment in Washington, D.C. on July 14, 2020. Rollins is a single mother who is pregnant with her second child and when the pandemic hit in March, she bunke](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf2d12c3829b5dde5/698a138be76ad24f556383c9/family-care-congress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 27, 2020  
### [The Next Congress Should Prioritize Care](https://time.com/5904399/care-congress-100-days/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa4d0f00ab61f8e0/69892a2c8fd2ee129835af25/state-of-union-415.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 8, 2018  
### [How the Fight for Gender Equality Is Changing in 2018](https://time.com/5191419/women-leading-fight-equality-sexual-harassment/)  
'The power that we need to claim is our own'
* ![US President Barack Obama \(L\) paints a q](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2713521777909d90/6988b5e9656a3f5bd5bce6b1/barack-obama-president-community-organizer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 18, 2017  
### [Ai-jen Poo: Obama Should Become Organizer-in-Chief](https://time.com/4599427/barack-obama-community-organizer/)  
After he leaves office, he should use his life of experience to help the organizations that serve pe...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![Pope Francis New York City Mural](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6873fe705be1585/698863b3196cf4d5d503808a/gettyimages-486233054.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 15, 2015  
### [Why I’m Walking 100 Miles to See Pope Francis](https://time.com/4035349//)  
I'm part of a group of 100 immigrant women and their families who are coming from across the country...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)

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