Speakers

• Palak Shah

  Palak Shah is a social entrepreneur, a leader in the social movement for workers’ rights in the new economy, and a speaker and thought leader on the future of work. As Social Innovations Director of NDWA, she leads national strategy on raising market norms and standards, partnering with the private sector, and building sustainable business ventures. She founded NDWA Labs (formerly known as Fair Care Labs), the innovations arm of NDWA, which experiments with using technology to improve job access and quality for domestic workers, and builds worker-centric technology to ensure an equitable future for workers as labor markets shift online.

• Mierle Laderman Ukeles

  Since 1977, when Mierle Laderman Ukeles became the official, unsalaried Artist-in-Residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation—a position she still holds—she has created art that deals with the endless maintenance and service work that “keeps the city alive,” urban waste flows, recycling, ecology, urban sustainability and our power to transform degraded land and water into healthy inhabitable public places. Ukeles asks whether we can design modes of survival – for a thriving planet, not an entropic one – that don’t crush our personal and civic freedom and silence the individual’s voice.

• Anand Giridharadas

  Anand Giridharadas is a writer, and most recently the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, published by Knopf in 2018. His other books are The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas and India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking. He is an editor-at-large for TIME, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times, having written, most recently, the biweekly “Letter from America.”

• Angela Dimayuga

  Angela Dimayuga is the creative director of food and culture for the Standard International hotel group. Formerly, the executive chef of Mission Chinese, she was a key figure in building the restaurant and was subsequently included in Zagat’s “30 Under 30” List in 2015 as an upcoming culinary star and was nominated for a James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year in 2016. At the Standard, she oversees the hotel’s restaurants, as well as leads programming that combines food, music, art, and activism. She is also taking the lead on the opening of a new Standard restaurant in London, and is involved in further expansion projects.

• Beth Noveck

  Beth Noveck directs the Governance Lab (GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is a Professor in Technology, Culture, and Society and affiliated faculty at the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and a Fellow at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy appointed her as the state’s first Chief Innovation Officer in 2018. She is also Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Previously, Beth served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative under President Obama. UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for Open Government.

• Josh Kline

  Josh Kline is a New York-based artist, who works primarily in sculpture, video, and installation, to create artworks and exhibitions that consider the ways in which our humanity has been transformed, commodified, and instru­mentalized within neoliberal society. Examining the regimes of control to which the human body is increasingly subjected—ranging from governmental and corporate surveillance to the relentless pursuit of youth—Kline addresses the erosion of boundaries between labor and leisure and the incursion of consumer culture into the most literally intimate aspects of life: blood, DNA, neurochemistry. In 2015, Kline began a major cycle of installation-based projects exploring the politics and economics of the 21st Century. Kline’s solo exhibition, Climate Change: Part One, will open at 47 Canal, New York on April 27, 2019. His work will also be included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.