Palak Shah

Social Innovations Director
National Domestic Workers Alliance

Palak Shah is the Social Innovations Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), the nation’s leading organization working for the power, respect and dignity of the 2.5 million nannies, housekeepers and caregivers in the United States. She is also the Founding Director of NDWA Labs, the innovation arm of the domestic worker movement. Shah is a leader in the movement for workers’ rights in the new economy, a thought leader on the future of work and a social entrepreneur. Her groundbreaking work at NDWA wrestles with the ways in which technology can be harnessed for the benefit of workers, placing them at the center of innovation and change.

Shah serves on the Advisory Council for the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy, as well as on the Advisory Council for the Institute for the Future’s Equitable Futures Lab. She previously served as a two-year Beck Visiting Social Innovator at the Harvard Kennedy School and as a Job Quality Fellow with the Aspen Institute.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.