Director of Economic & Workforce Policy
Louise Auerhahn is Director of Economic and Workforce Policy at Working Partnerships USA. Her current focus is on the impacts of Silicon Valley’s changing economy on working families and the middle class, including efforts to create quality, sustainable jobs and center the leadership of working people, women and communities of color in local and regional economic policy. She is a lead author of the Life in the Valley Economy, Tech’s Invisible Workforce, and Innovating Inequality? reports, highlighting the economic wellbeing of the “invisible majority” of low- and middle-income residents in Silicon Valley. At the regional level, she is a co-author of Power is at the Root and coordinates the Construction Careers Initiative. She also serves on the Steering Committee for the Bay Area High Road Transition Collaborative and on the Board of Directors of work2future. She holds a B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.
