NATALIE FOSTER is a leading architect of the movement to build an inclusive and resilient economy that works for all. President and co-founder of Economic Security Project and Aspen Institute Fellow, her work and writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, TIME, Business Insider, CNN, and The Guardian. Natalie speaks regularly on economic security, the future of work and the new political economy. An unstoppable builder, Natalie previously founded the sharing economy community Peers and co-founded Rebuild the Dream with Van Jones, and served as Digital Director for President Obama's Organizing for America - a leading partner in winning transformative healthcare reform. A daughter of a preacher from Kansas, Natalie draws on the values of community, dignity, and optimism to build a better America. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and two kids. The Guarantee is her first book.

Darrick Hamilton is a university professor, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. Darrick examines social stratification and political economy in order to move policy and practice in fundamentally new directions that promote economic inclusion, social equity, and civic engagement. 

Considered one of the nation’s foremost public intellectuals, Darrick has been profiled in the New York Times, Mother Jones, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2017, he was featured in Politico's50 Ideas Shaping American Politics and the People Behind Them issue. In 2020, Darrick was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Group Health Foundation. 

Darrick has been involved in crafting policy proposals that have garnered media attention and inspired legislative proposals at the federal, state, and local levels, including baby bonds, guaranteed income, and a federal job guarantee. In 2020, Darrick served as a member of the economic committee of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force. He has testified before several Senate and House committees, including the Joint Economic Committee and the Senate Banking Committee.  

Darrick was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and received a PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina.

Elected by The JPB Foundation’s board in 2023, Deepak Bhargava assumed the role of
president full-time in February 2024 after many years as a grantee, board member, and board
vice chair of the Foundation.

Bhargava brings over 30 years of expertise in social justice movements as a leader,
campaigner, and strategist. Since 2019, he has been a distinguished lecturer at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. He previously led Community Change for 16 years, where he worked to strengthen the community organizing field and launched coalitions that achieved major policy reforms at the federal level on issues such as poverty, health care, and immigration.

Bhargava has trained and mentored hundreds of leaders who’ve played key roles in progressive organizations and social justice movements, and, more recently, he co-founded a new organization, Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, which trains and supports early and mid-career people working for social change, especially people of color, women, LGBTQ people and people from working-class backgrounds.

He has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Leadership Conference
for Civil and Human Rights, the Open Society Foundations (US), and 350.org, where he was
Board Chair. He currently serves on the board of the Democracy Fund.

Bhargava is the co-author of Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World with
Stephanie Luce (New Press, 2023) and co-editor of Immigration Matters: Movements, Visions,
and Strategies for a Progressive Future with Ruth Milkman and Penny Lewis (New Press,
2021). He was a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute from 2020-2023, where he co-authored The Statue of Liberty Plan: A Progressive Vision for Migration in the Age of Climate Change with Rich Stolz and The Death of “Deliverism” in Democracy Journal with Shahrzad Shams and Harry Hanbury, which explores the relationship of economic policy to political allegiances.

He has written extensively about community organizing, public policy related to poverty and
economic justice, progressive strategy, civic engagement, and racial justice among many other topics for The New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Nation, The American Prospect, Huffington Post, and Democracy Journal, and he has been featured in major news outlets such as National Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, National Public Radio, and MSNBC. Bhargava is married to Harry W. Hanbury, a documentary filmmaker. He was born in Bangalore, India, and grew up in New York City, where he currently resides.

Chris Hughes is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Economic Security Project and a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. His research and writing focuses on the history of central banking, economic policymaking and the administrative state, antitrust policy, and guaranteed income studies. Hughes is currently writing a book chronicling the history of the economic policy of the American administrative state. He is enrolled in the PhD program of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn, was published by St Martin’s Press in 2018.

Hughes has a masters in Economics from The New School of Social Research and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with a bachelors in History and Literature. He was a co-founder of Facebook. A former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Hughes now serves on the boards of the New York Public Library, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Washington Square Park Conservancy. He chairs the board of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and lives in Greenwich Village with his husband and two children.