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Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with David Soo

David Soo is the former vice president of policy and engagement at Jobs for the Future (JFF), where he led key initiatives across JFF and JFFLabs focused on building external engagement and influence, including leadership of the Policy & Advocacy team. Soo's experience across the policy and philanthropic space gives him a unique vantage point on the future of learning — and why it demands closer collaboration across sectors.

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Katie Caves

Katie Caves is a senior researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich, where she studies global vocational education and training systems to identify models that work, and how they can be adapted to different contexts. Caves’ work is concerned with large-scale systems change, creating more mutually equitable and beneficial learning infrastructure for students, businesses, and economies.

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Faye and Avanish Sahai

Faye Sahai is a global healthcare and technology advisor, investor, founder, and executive with over 30 years of experience. Avanish Sahai is a retired technology executive. His career at the intersection of technology and enterprise gave him a distinct lens on systemic change — one he now applies to philanthropy, focusing on grants that strengthen the infrastructure of organizations working on education, poverty alleviation, and healthcare access. Together, Faye and Avanish are co-founders of the Sahai Family Foundation, where they lead a grant-making practice rooted in rigor, empathy, and long-term impact. Their focus on systems thinking reflects the Learning Society's broader mission of building new systems for human capital development.

Scaling Workforce Development to Meet the AI Moment: What You Need To Know

A new Work Shift brief by Matthew Muench, who founded Lucerra Impact Advisory after serving as head of jobs and skills for JPMorganChase Global Philanthropy, argues for a four-wave framework to understand the past 40 years of workforce development progress. He uses this framework to chart out what it will take for the next generation of workforce thinkers to finally achieve scale in the AI age.

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Anne Trumbore

Anne Trumbore is Chief Digital Learning Officer at the Sands Institute for Lifelong Learning at The Darden School, University of Virginia, where she is responsible for creating a strategy to expand access to world-class education and advance Darden's mission of providing transformational learning experiences to learners globally. Drawing on experience establishing and leading Wharton Online and early-stage roles at Coursera, NovoEd, and Stanford's Online High School, Anne has helped pioneer new forms of student-centered online education. She is the author of The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology (Princeton University Press, 2025) and was a 2025 Stanford Futures Fellow.

Catalyzing Early-Career Potential in the AI Era: Convening Summary

Every era of technological transformation brings the same urgent questions: What happens to jobs and the people who hold them? What does it mean for those just beginning their careers? Today, AI is forcing us to confront these questions again, and with even greater urgency. To address them, Jobs For the Future (JFF), Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, and the Stanford Center on Longevity convened leaders across education, philanthropy,  industry, and government to design strategies to help early-career workers access quality jobs and advance their careers in the age of AI. A key emphasis for the day was on cross-sector collaboration... By Allison Wiley, Stanford University

Work and learning are inseparable — so why do we try to separate them?

Community Colleges, Frontline Workers Can Be Front and Center in the Learning Society

By Thomas Holton and Holly Wallace, SINA Communications

The Logistics of Lifelong Learning: In Dialogue with Elliot Gillerman

Elliot Gillerman is Senior Vice President for Strategy & Insights at CredLens, a national non-profit data trust working to make sense of the growing non-degree credential ecosystem. In his role, Elliot is responsible for crafting CredLens’ product strategy as well as overseeing the organization’s data and research partnerships. Drawing on experience from Chegg, Penn Foster, and Boston Consulting Group, Elliot is focused on expanding access to economic opportunity by bridging the gap between education and employment.

The Future of Education/Workforce Collaboration: In Dialogue with Annelies Goger

Dr. Annelies Goger is an economic geographer and fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her recent research has focused on the future of work and how to cultivate human-centered approaches to policy design that drive economic opportunity...