Felicia Wong

Felicia Wong is a principal at the Roosevelt Institute and served as president and CEO from March 2012 to January 2025. In her current role, she is the chief strategist for the Roosevelt Society and supports the Institute’s President and CEO, serving as senior advisor and as a fundraising and external relations principal. During her time as president and CEO, Felicia and the team quadrupled the overall budget and made Roosevelt a key collaborator with the nation’s top public officials, academic experts, and progressive movement organizers.

She was the US representative on the G7 Economic Resilience Panel in 2021, served on the Biden-Harris administration transition advisory board, and as vice chair of the administration’s Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity. 

Felicia’s research focuses on post-neoliberal thought and the intersection of race, economics, and social stratification; her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and the Boston Review. She co-hosted the podcast How to Save a Country and is co-author of the book The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Before joining Roosevelt, Felicia ran investment services for the Democracy Alliance and operations and product development at a venture-funded, labor union–aligned education services company. Her public service includes a White House fellowship in the Office of the Attorney General and a political appointment in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. She serves on the board of the Economic Security Project and chairs the Development Committee for the Trustees of Deep Springs College. Felicia holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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