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Ai-Jen Poo (蒲艾真)

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Ai-Jen Poo (蒲艾真)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ai-Jen Poo
  • Chinese: 蒲艾真
  • Era: 1974
  • Geography: Pittsburgh, PA
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Time magazine selected her as one of the 100 most influential people of the era (美國時代雜誌將她選入了最具影響力時代百大人物), 2012

Education

  • Columbia Univ. — 1996 — B.A., Women’s Studies

Employment

  • Domestic Workers United (聯合家庭幫傭工會) — Founder and former lead organizer — (2000-2009) — National Domestic Workers’ Alliance (美國全國家庭傭工聯盟) — Director — (2010-) — Caring Across Generations (跨代關懷) — Co-director — (2011-)

Role in the Community

  • Keynote speaker at the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association (ITASA) East Coast Conference in New York City; in the 2013 TaiwaneseAmerican.org interview she spoke about how her Taiwanese roots shaped her labor organizing, crediting a nanny’s story as her motivation — Ai-Jen Poo: Inspiring Across Generations (TA online, 2013).
  • The TA community documented her as a model of Taiwanese Americans “having a role in helping the community beyond themselves”; her Time 100 (2012) listing in the Identity Snapshot matches the interview’s account, which adds Newsweek’s 150 Fearless Women list.
  • Her own encyclopedia record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2040-ai-jen-poo|TAH #2040 Ai-Jen Poo 蒲艾真]].

Family

  • Father: 蒲慕明
  • Mother: 胡文真

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Re-grep 2026-09-20 (slice 09190400-10): corpus hits are her own TAH #2040 record + index entries only — hit set unchanged; existing Role-in-the-Community links (TA online 2013 interview, Time 100) already absorb all available material. No new corpus facts; no conflicts.
  • Re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211500-25): re-confirmed — hit set unchanged (own TAH #2040 record + index only); verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221000-22): fresh grep returns own TAH #2040 record + index; the already-linked interview Ai-jen Poo: Inspiring Across Generations uses ‘Ai-jen’ capitalization and is invisible to the case-sensitive grep pattern but is already absorbed above. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230500-29): fresh grep returns own TAH #2040 record + index only; hit set unchanged. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240500-23): fresh ZH+EN grep returns own TAH #2040 record + index only; hit set unchanged. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-26): fresh ZH+EN grep over content/works + content/articles returned the identical hit set — all records already absorbed above. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason. (hit set: own TAH #2040 + works index + TA online interview only)
  • Re-grep 2026-09-27 (slice 09260600-12): fresh ZH+EN grep (蒲艾真 / Ai-Jen Poo / Ai-jen Poo) — hit set unchanged (own TAH #2040 + index + TA online interview, all already absorbed above). Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Re-grep 2026-10-03 (slice 09270700-5): fresh ZH+EN grep (蒲艾真 / Ai-Jen Poo / Ai-jen Poo) over content/works + content/articles — hit set unchanged (own TAH #2040 record + works index + TA online interview Inspiring Across Generations, all already absorbed above). Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason. hits-hash=49d86f8d85ff

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