The Human Interface: How Workers Can Step Into the Tech Conversation--And Lead It - Wilneida Negrón

\nDr. Wilneida Negrón is a leading voice on the future of work, with a reputation for connecting big-picture thinking to grassroots community-building and forward-looking ideas. Growing up in a working-class family between Puerto Rico and New York, her early life was shaped by deep curiosity, economic precarity, and a drive to ask not only what's broken--but how we fix it.\n \n Wilneida started her career as a social worker and therapist helping teens and families navigate the court system. When she saw that the tools people needed didn't exist, she taught herself to code so she could help build them.\n \n Now the director of worker innovation and impact at Coworker, Wilneida helps workers organize for change while advising some of the world's most influential tech leaders, investors, and policymakers. She founded the Future of Workers Initiative and cofounded the Startups & Society Initiative, where she convenes founders, CEOs and C-suite leaders, investors, labor advocates, and civil society leaders to rethink how innovation serves people. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, The Washington Post, Financial Times, and more. With a PhD in Comparative Politics and fluency in Spanish and Mandarin, she brings global perspective and lived experience to complex conversations--from AI and surveillance to robotics and algorithmic management. A Fellow at Data & Society and the Atlantic Institute, she also advises the Partnership on AI, Axon's Ethics Council, and Responsible Innovation Labs.\n