Natalie Foster is president and co-founder of Economic Security Project, an organization that promotes cash policies and fights monopoly power. Foster is also a senior fellow at the Future of Work Institute, an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, which promotes research and policies about making work more fair for workers. 
Education.
Foster graduated Green corps, the field school for environmental organizing and went to work at the Sierra Club as an organizer. She built the first digital department at the Sierra Club and served as deputy organizing director at Moveon.org. She was also a 2015 Institute for the Future Fellow and a 2016 New America Fellow.
Career.
Foster served as digital director for President Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA), a community organizing project of the Democratic National Committee to consolidate support around Obama’s legislative agenda, and was simultaneously the digital director for the Democratic National Committee under Jen O’Malley Dillon. She served as CEO of Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund, which she co-founded with Van Jones, to use media and technology to build a coalition behind solutions to expand the middle class. She co-founded Peers, which she described as “a grassroots organization to support the sharing economy movement.”
Foster co-founded Economic Security Project with Chris Hughes and Dorian Warren, and she currently serves as president. The organization promotes guaranteed income programs and unrestricted direct cash policies such as tax credits as a means to reduce poverty and protect the middle class. The organization funded guaranteed income pilot programs such as the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), which gave $500 per month for 24 months to 125 randomly selected residents of Stockton, California. These programs preceded a wave of guaranteed income pilots around the country.
Publication.
Foster is the author of "The Guarantee: Dispatches from the Front Line of America’s Next Economy" (The New Press 4/23/2024), a book that explores the possibilities for an American economy where health care, housing, an inheritance, dignified work, an income floor, and family care are guaranteed by the government for everyone. "Kirkus Reviews" described the book as “a cogent argument for an economy benefiting working people.”