Alexia Sanchez

Program & Operations Manager for Aspen Digital’s Workplace Innovation Now (WIN) Challenge. Her background includes gender policy and social equity work in the federal government and nonprofit sector, including service on the White House Gender Policy Council and as a policy adviser to the Domestic Policy Council.

Three WIN Projects Target Workplace Conditions Behind Gender Inequality

At the WIN Summit, three of the WIN Challenge’s 18 awardees argued that helping women thrive at work requires changing workplace systems, not just preparing individual workers to manage barriers. The Shift Project is targeting scheduling software that makes shifts unpredictable; WorkLife Law plans to connect pregnant workers with legal protections through healthcare providers; and Affordable Homes of South Texas is making safe job sites a condition of placing women in construction roles.

The Aspen InstituteOct 29, 20264 min read