Wilneida Negrón PhD

Dr. 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.

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.