Michelle Miller

Michelle Miller is the Director of Innovation for the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, where she researches the impact of artificial intelligence and algorithmic software on working women. Her research emphasizes the imaginative capacity, joy and humanity that working class people bring to their jobs and to their communities.

She joined the Center after a decade as the co-founder and co-director of Coworker, where she provided support to worker organizing efforts at places like Starbucks, Google and REI. Coworker also pursued groundbreaking experiments and research during this time—through their Solidarity Fund, they distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to emergent worker organizers while pioneering the labor movement’s response to the rapidly increasing deployment of algorithmic management, digital surveillance and AI augmentation.

Michelle is also a sought-after writer, speaker and leader on the future of work and the labor movement. In 2015, she was honored to host the first ever White House Town Hall on Worker Voice with President Barack Obama. Her personal story was featured in the Obama Presidential Archive Oral History Project, as well as in multiple books on contemporary economic leaders and thinkers. Her research has been published through the Roosevelt Institute, the Century Foundation and Daedalus Journal. Michelle’s work has been honored by fellowships with Ashoka, Echoing Green, the Institute for the Future and the Brookings Institute. In addition to the Recompose board, she is on the boards of Data and Society and Arts and Democracy.

Michelle lives in Brooklyn, NY where she enjoys powerlifting, intricate needlework and tending to the neuroses of her rescue cat Clive Pepperoni.