Julie Kashen

Julie Kashen is a senior fellow and director for women’s economic justice at The Century Foundation, and a national go-to expert for policy makers and media on care policy. Kashen has decades of experience forwarding care-related issues in federal and state government and through the nonprofit sector, including helping to draft and build momentum for national legislation. As a labor policy advisor to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), she helped draft and build momentum for the first paid sick days bill in Congress, the Healthy Families Act. As policy director of the three-year Make It Work campaign, she drafted a visionary child care proposal, whose principles were incorporated into the Child Care for Working Families Act. And as a senior advisor to the National Domestic Workers Alliance, she supported domestic workers to create and introduce the first-ever national Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. In addition, as deputy director of policy for Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ), she helped New Jersey become the second state in the nation to adopt paid family and medical leave. Kashen has published a significant body of research and writing about the care economy, and has become a go-to source for policy makers and for the media. She has testified in Congress; been interviewed on NPR and quoted in The New York Times, Politico, Fortune, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and Vox; and been featured on numerous podcasts.