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Liba Wenig Rubenstein

Director, Economic Opportunities Program, Future of Work Initiative

Liba Wenig Rubenstein is the director of the Future of Work Initiative.

Previously, Liba was the founding and lead social impact executive at MySpace, Tumblr, and 21st Century Fox, where she pioneered ways to harness companies’ financial, human, cultural, and technological resources for social, civic, and environmental progress and built bridges between sectors to amplify impact. She has helped found the Civic Alliance, chaired the board of premier youth vote organization the Alliance for Youth Organizing, served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption, and advised nonprofits Pop Culture Collaborative, KW Foundation, Vote.org, Social Impact Fund, CARE, Civic Nation, Why Tuesday?, and Invisible Children. Born and bred in Brooklyn, and a proud product of New York City public schools, Liba graduated from Yale University with distinction in American studies and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two young daughters.

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Videos

Can the Future of Democracy Be Found Through Work?

Panel discussion at Aspen Ideas 2024. Renewed efforts to expand participation, representation and shared decision-making at work may offer a framework to rebuild faith in democracy.

June 25, 2024

Blog Posts Of Interest

The Labor-Savvy Leader

In the first piece of its kind in the pages of Harvard Business Review in over 30 years, Roundtable principals draw from learnings from the first year of the Roundtable to argue that the time has come for management to learn how to work with, rather than against, organized labor.

June 13, 2023