Alan Aja, an Associate Professor in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, is a scholar-activist for federal to municipal level job guarantees. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the National Jobs for All Coalition.

Aja writes extensively on inter-group disparities, economic stratification, public policy, collective action, and sustainability. His articles and essays have appeared in an eclectic range of publications, including Boston Review, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Education Week, The Nation, Dissent, American Prospect, and Latino Rebels. His book, Miami's Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization and the Local Afro-Cuban Experience, was published by Palgrave-McMillan in 2016.

Aja was a co-author of "What We Get Wrong about Closing the Racial Wealth Gap," a report published by Duke University in 2018, and was an advisor to Rudy Valdez, director of The Sentence, an award-winning documentary on the consequences of mass incarceration and minimum drug sentencing laws. Before becoming an academic, Aja was a labor organizer in Texas. alanaaja@yahoo.com