Julie Kashen

Julie Kashen is director for women’s economic justice and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a national think tank, with expertise in child care and pre-K, work and family, economic mobility, and labor issues. She has been affiliated with The Century Foundation since 2015.

Kashen has more than two decades of experience and expertise in these issues from her work in federal and state government and through the nonprofit sector. She has served as a labor policy advisor to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and deputy policy director for former Governor Jon Corzine (D-NJ) (after serving as his legislative director in the Senate). Kashen was also the policy director for the three-year Make It Work Campaign, Senior Vice President of Single Stop USA and has served as an advisor to the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the CARE Fund, and a number of other organizations. Kashen is also on the Board of Directors of the Vote Mama Action Fund.

Kashen holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s with highest honors in political science from the University of Michigan. She was an adjunct lecturer at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey. Kashen recently relocated to Takoma Park, MD with her husband and son.