Wilneida Negrón is a cross-sector policy leader, coalition builder, and people connector. For nearly two decades, she’s worked with policymakers, industry, and capital markets to make sure the rules of our economy and our political system work for the people who live under them, not just the people who write them. Her pioneering research on emerging technology, economic, and labor trends have led to the development of leading policy and regulatory frameworks currently being used at all three levels of government: national, state, and municipal.
She currently leads two national working groups with community leaders, advocates, researchers, unions, policymakers, and investigative journalists on:
She started out as a crisis counselor, sitting with young people, families, survivors of domestic violence, and immigrants at some of the hardest moments of their lives. That work taught her that policy is never abstract. It decides whether you get paid what you earned, whether you’re treated fairly as a customer, whether your neighborhood is safe, and whether your kids get a real shot.
From there, her work grew to cover the rules that shape everyday life: labor, technology and AI, consumer protection, public safety, and education. She has advised government leaders, regulators, companies, founders, investors, and community organizations. And she has built initiatives that bring those groups to the same table, because the rules that last are the ones written with the people they affect.
Her first book, The Human Interface, is out now.