Natalie Foster
Natalie Foster | |
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| Education | B.A. |
| Alma mater | Pepperdine University |
| Organization | Economic Security Project |
| Website | https://nataliefoster.me/ |
Natalie Foster is president and co-founder of Economic Security Project, an organization that promotes cash policies and fights monopoly power.[1] Foster is also a senior fellow at the Future of Work Institute, an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, which promotes research and policies about making work more fair for workers.[2]
Education
[edit]Foster graduated Green corps, the field school for environmental organizing and went to work at the Sierra Club as an organizer. She built the first digital department at the Sierra Club and served as deputy organizing director at Moveon.org.[3] She was also a 2015 Institute for the Future Fellow and a 2016 New America Fellow.[4][5]
Career
[edit]Foster served as digital director for President Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA), a community organizing project of the Democratic National Committee to consolidate support around Obama’s legislative agenda,[6] and was simultaneously the digital director for the Democratic National Committee under Jen O’Malley Dillon.[7] She served as CEO of Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund, which she co-founded with Van Jones, to use media and technology to build a coalition behind solutions to expand the middle class.[8][9][10] She co-founded Peers, which she described as “a grassroots organization to support the sharing economy movement.”[10]
Foster co-founded Economic Security Project with Chris Hughes and Dorian Warren,[11][12] and she currently serves as president.[1] The organization promotes guaranteed income programs and unrestricted direct cash policies such as tax credits as a means to reduce poverty and protect the middle class.[11][12] The organization funded guaranteed income pilot programs such as the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED),[11] which gave $500 per month for 24 months to 125 randomly selected residents of Stockton, California.[13] These programs preceded a wave of guaranteed income pilots around the country.[13]
Publication
[edit]Foster is the author of The Guarantee: Dispatches from the Front Line of America’s Next Economy (The New Press 4/23/2024), a book that explores the possibilities for an American economy where health care, housing, an inheritance, dignified work, an income floor, and family care are guaranteed by the government for everyone.[14] Kirkus Reviews described the book as “a cogent argument for an economy benefiting working people.”[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Meet the Team". Economic Security Project. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ "Home". Economic Security Project. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ "Natalie Foster". The Aspen Institute. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ "Natalie Foster". IFTF. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ "Natalie Foster". New America. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ "Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Home". web.archive.org. August 27, 2008. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ Smith, Ben (April 30, 2011). "Obama's online army quietly gears up". POLITICO. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110729005390/en/Call-for-the-Dream-Built-in-Less-Than-24-Hours-Using-New-Twilio-VoIP-Product
- ^ "Between The Lines - Natalie Foster: Rebuild the American Dream Campaign (Week Ending Sept. 9, 2011)". btlarchive.btlonline.org. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ a b Johnson, Cat (July 31, 2013). "Supporting the Sharing Economy: A Q&A with Peers Co-Founder Natalie Foster". Shareable. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ a b c Matthews, Dylan (January 15, 2020). "Chris Hughes wants another chance". Vox. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ a b León, Concepción de (February 21, 2018). "The Redemption of Chris Hughes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ a b Ho, Vivian (June 13, 2023). "'Life-changing impacts': can a guaranteed income program work?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ "Working toward an economy that meets everyone's needs". www.marketplace.org. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ THE GUARANTEE | Kirkus Reviews.