Liba Wenig Rubenstein is director of the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative and co-founder of its Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, working to bridge gaps between American workers and business leaders to shape a future of shared prosperity and resilient democracy. Previously, Liba was the founding and lead social impact executive at 21st Century Fox, Tumblr, and Myspace, where she pioneered ways to harness media and technology 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 a coalition of 1300+ businesses committed to a thriving democracy called the Civic Alliance, chaired the board of premier youth civic engagement organization the Alliance for Youth Organizing, been appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on Climate Change and Sustainable Consumption, and served as a board member or advisor to organizations including Remote Work Institute, Pop Culture Collaborative, Vote.org, Social Impact Fund, and more. Born and raised in Brooklyn by a family full of rabbis, Liba is a graduate of Yale University, and uncharacteristically raising her family in Los Angeles.
