Jason Ewas advances person-centered solutions that provide everyone in America with access to well-designed savings tools and rates of return that can generate financial stability and wealth building across a lifespan, from young adulthood through retirement.
Prior to joining Aspen FSP, he was the Senior Policy Manager at Commonwealth, a nonprofit focused on advancing financial security. While there, he led Commonwealth’s partnership with the CFPB to clarify regulations on emergency savings, managed a project with a Fortune 100 company to lay the groundwork for a cutting-edge emergency savings program, and organized and executed a rapid campaign around raising awareness of crucial pandemic-related tax changes in 2021.
Jason was also the founder and first Director of the Economic Mobility Lab in the Mayor’s Office at the City of Boston under Mayor Martin J. Walsh. At the Lab, he set the strategic direction for the office, managed a team, and collaborated with departments to advance innovative projects on childcare and Children’s Savings Accounts, which have remained major projects at the City several years later. He also led the City’s work in supporting employee-owned companies.
He has a Master of Public Administration from the McCormack Graduate School at University of Massachusetts Boston and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Cornell University.