Saket Soni is a labor organizer. He is founder and director of Resilience Force, the voice of the rising workforce rebuilding America after climate disasters. He is also the author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. The book, about America’s first climate resilience workers, was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and called “a must-read” by The New York Times.   

Soni is a recognized national expert on the intersection of climate, workforce, and racial justice issues. He was profiled as an “architect of the next labor movement” in USA Today, chosen as a 2022–23 Aspen Institute Fellow, and was named one of Fast Company’s most creative people in business for 2022. His work was the subject of a major New Yorker feature story in November 2021.