Sarita Gupta

Sarita Gupta (born c. 1975 ) is a British-American social justice activist and vice president of US Programs at the Ford Foundation. Her career has focused on workers' rights and human rights. She joined the Ford Foundation in 2019, initially as director of its Future of Work(ers) program. Prior to that, Gupta served for 20 years in various leadership roles at Jobs With Justice, including as executive director from 2007. During that period, she also co-founded and served as co-director of Caring Across Generations.

In 2011, Gupta and Ai-jen Poo co-founded Caring Across Generations (CAG), a national coalition of caregivers and care recipients with a mission "to change our culture and policy in America to value and support caregiving".

In 2019, Gupta resigned from JWJ and CAG to work at the Ford Foundation.

Public speaking and media Gupta has maintained a public profile with speaking engagements and media appearances over the decades. In 1996, at 21 she was the youngest member on a panel on mobilizing women at the first Feminist Expo in Washington, DC. In 2002, she was a guest speaker at the Young Communist League (YCL) 7th National Convention. In 2016, she testified before the US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She spoke in 2018 at the Aspen Institute on "The Justice System and Jobs: How Court Decisions Are Shaping Americans’ Work Lives". She appeared on a number of panels and in events sponsored by the Obama administration. Gupta has appeared in various media, including MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, PBS, CNBC, and Fox News, and written for the Huffington Post and The Hill, and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Politico.

Personal life Gupta lives with her husband, Eddie Acosta, and daughter in Silver Spring, Maryland. She practices yoga and coaches her daughter's soccer team.