Andrew Zwicker

Andrew Zwicker is a physicist and New Jersey State Senator representing the 16th Legislative District. He chairs the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee, serves as vice chair of the Labor and Higher Education committees, and is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Public Engagement at Princeton University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory.

States Test Financing and Training Models to Expand Employee Ownership

At the Aspen Institute’s 2026 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, Iowa state Rep. Shannon Lundgren, New Jersey state Sen. Andrew Zwicker and the Department of Labor’s Hilary Abell argued that states are becoming the main testing ground for expanding employee ownership. Their case was practical rather than theoretical: states can help owners and workers navigate outreach, feasibility studies, financing and post-transition education, while Washington funds, convenes and learns from those experiments without imposing a single model.

The Aspen InstituteJun 9, 202616 min read