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Felicia Wong

Principal

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Felicia Wong is a principal at the Roosevelt Institute and served as president and CEO from March 2012 to January 2025. During her dozen-plus years running Roosevelt, Felicia and her team increased the size and footprint of the organization four-fold. Today, the Institute is proud to work in partnership with the nation’s top public servants, academic experts and writers, and movement organizers.

Felicia has held several recent volunteer public service roles, including US representative, 2021 G7 Economic Resilience Panel; member, Biden-Harris Administration Transition Advisory Board; and vice chair, U.S. Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity.

Felicia’s own research focuses on post-neoliberal thought. She is particularly interested in building strategies at the intersection of social identity, economics, and culture. Her writing 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. She was a White House Fellow in the Office of the Attorney General and a political appointee in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. She currently serves on the boards of the Economic Security Project and Data + Society, 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.