Sarita Gupta is the VP of US Programs at the Ford Foundation, overseeing the Ford Foundation’s domestic work including Civic Engagement and Government, Creativity and Free Expression, Future of Work(ers), Technology and Society, Disability Rights, and Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice.  She joined the foundation in 2019 as director of the Future of Work(ers) program, bringing more than two decades of experience working to expand people’s ability to take collective action to improve their workplaces and communities, having served as the Executive Director of Jobs With Justice and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations.  She is the co-author of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century.