Saket Soni

Labor organizer, human rights strategist
Saket Soni is executive director of Resilience Force, which represents the rising "resilience workforce" that rebuilds to help families come home after hurricanes, floods and fires.

Why you should listen

Under Saket Soni's leadership at Resilience Force, resilience workers have won labor rights attached to more $500 million in contracts, living wages and safe working conditions. He was profiled as an "architect of the next labor movement" in USA Today and named one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People in Business" for 2022. His work was the subject of a major New Yorker feature story. His book, The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams, was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR and Amazon.

Saket Soni’s TED talk