Saket Soni
Saket Soni is the founder and co-director of Resilience Force, the national voice of America’s Resilience Workforce. Resilience Workers are the rising labor force powering disaster recovery and adaptation in the era of climate change. Saket also founded the New Orleans Workers’ Center and the National Guestworker Alliance, both in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He has won organizing and policy victories for low-wage workers and the unemployed. Saket and his team have won landmark judgements, including one of the largest cases of human trafficking in modern US history, recovered millions of dollars in stolen wages, fought to eliminate forced labor in many industries, and raised wages and working conditions for thousands of workers. A profile in USA Today called Saket an “architect of the next labor movement.” Saket is from New Delhi, India.