Liba Wenig Rubenstein is the director of the Future of Work Initiative.

Previously, Liba was the founding and lead social impact executive at MySpace, Tumblr, and 21st Century Fox, where she pioneered ways to harness 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 the Civic Alliance, chaired the board of premier youth vote organization the Alliance for Youth Organizing, served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption, and advised nonprofits Pop Culture Collaborative, KW Foundation, Vote.org, Social Impact Fund, CARE, Civic Nation, Why Tuesday?, and Invisible Children. Born and bred in Brooklyn, and a proud product of New York City public schools, Liba graduated from Yale University with distinction in American studies and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two young daughters.

Authored by Liba:

Back to the Future of Work: Revisiting the Past and Shaping the Future
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Back to the Future of Work: Revisiting the Past and Shaping the Future

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The Power to Shape What Comes Next: Writing the Future of Work Together
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The Power to Shape What Comes Next: Writing the Future of Work Together

We get it right when we focus on fundamentals: recognize that job quality matters more than job quantity; center care work as essential to economic function; build coalitions across labor, technology policy, and civil society; understand that flexibility without security is precarity; remember that workers are also caregivers, creatives, and civic leaders.

Worker Power & Agency
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Worker Power & Agency

No matter how the technology evolves, workers will have a seat at the table in its development and deployment. 

Reflections on the Future of Work from Aspen Ideas Festival 2025
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Reflections on the Future of Work from Aspen Ideas Festival 2025

At this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, conversations across sessions from AI to religion to capitalism kept circling around a question that’s been keeping me up at night: How do we ensure rapid, disruptive change strengthens rather than erodes American opportunity and democracy?

The Human in the Machine — at Work
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The Human in the Machine — at Work

At this summer’s Aspen Ideas Festival, I had the great pleasure of facilitating a conversation with four Ideas Fest Fellows — young leaders in the fields of media, philanthropy, and economic policy — about their view of the future of work.