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(Post 1/2) Last week, I received a letter in the mail from the White House thanking me for my service after my recent departure from the administration and the US Department of Labor. I’m usually more proximate when announcing my departure from things but along with taking some time to recover and rejuvenate, I also got to reflect on the last 2.5 years.
From the moment I got the call to be Chief Innovation Officer at Labor the day after the insurrection, to being sworn in in my home office, to when I handed in my papers, this period of service has been the biggest honor of my life. To be the first person in the entire history of my family born in America to getting to serve an American president is not something my forebears even knew to dream about. I am so grateful to my country for this opportunity.
I want to thank a few folks:
My family, my amazing wife Crystal and my children Kelechi and Chizara, who bore with their husband/dad working late and early. My family served their country too during this time and I am so grateful to them for it.
Sec. Marty Walsh all the way down to the front line employees of the US Department of Labor who worked from sunrise to sunset on behalf of the American worker, my best days and moments in this job came not from any idea I had but when I could clear obstacles out of the way for these brilliant public servants. I wish every American could see them, if they could they would sleep better knowing who works on behalf of them and their country.
My amazing colleagues in the Office of the Deputy Secretary who were my professional family since Day One of this administration. I learned so much from them and watched them move heaven and earth on a daily basis to make this economy more fair, this society more just, and this department more forward leaning on behalf of the American worker. And while I’m here, I need to thank very specifically Acting Secretary Julie Su for the leader and human being she is. There is no kinder boss and no greater role model. America will be lucky to have her as its Secretary of Labor.
19 Jun 2023
(Post 2/2) The friends and collaborators from inside and outside of government who made this work possible ranging from philanthropists, local/state government officials, academics, technologists and leaders in industry.
While I will announce full details of my next steps in the coming weeks and months, I’m excited to spend a piece of my time going forward with the Burning Glass Institute and the Burnes Center at Northeastern University. Both groups are brilliant thinkers on the future of work and public service, and I’m excited to spend time among them.
I’m so proud of what we were able to accomplish and begin during this 2.5 years from a multi-billion dollar overhaul of the nation’s unemployment insurance system, to a workforce strategy for the space industry, to an inaugural enterprise data strategy for DOL, and so much more. I also am painfully aware that we have so much more to do for the American worker and economy as a whole. We have so much more to do to create a future of work that includes all of us and an economy that makes us prosperous and that makes us proud. This is the mission to which I will devote the rest of my life to and if this is your mission too I look forward to working alongside you.
19 Jun 2023
#WhartonGrad @ChikeAguh (WG'12) shared what inspired him to pursue his career in education and degree at Wharton during his graduation speech to the #WEMBA Class of 2022: “This was a place where I believed I could learn the tools to not just make a profit, but make a change.”
10 Sep 2022
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01 Nov 2026
It is never guaranteed that we see another birthday so I am so grateful to everyone who sent me well wishes and helped me celebrate my birthday. Particular thanks to my family who helped make it special for me. Thanks so much everyone
22 Oct 2026
Happy birthday to my friend and brother, Governor Wes Moore. You make us proud @iamwesmoore @govwesmoore
15 Oct 2026
Yesterday, we celebrated my favorite AKA, best mom, love of my life and the beating heart of our family Crystal Aguh. I hope you as the happiest of birthdays, I love you and you are best thing in my life.
07 Oct 2026
Across the country, #GapClosing startups are building technology to tackle challenges in #housing, #childcare, #healthcare, education, workforce development, and financial stability. But lengthy contracting timelines, unclear applications, and other barriers can keep those tools from reaching the communities that need them most.
Today at @clintonglobal, PRIME Alliance announced @iam_elpaso, @citylittlerock, and @oakland, as its inaugural cohort of cities. Together, we'll reimagine how governments partner with startups to solve urgent public problems.
PRIME Alliance is a multi-year KaporCenter initiative that connects gap-closing startups with cities and states for partnerships that could unlock economic benefits for communities nationwide.
We’re ready to get to work! Learn more: kaporcenter.org/PRIMEalliance #CGI2026
23 Sep 2026
The workers we will depend on tomorrow are the young people we must prepare today.
I was glad to join CareerWise, Jobs for the Future (JFF), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Washington, D.C. for the convening launching the Compact for America’s Youth, and to moderate a conversation about what it will take to build stronger pathways from education to careers for young people across America.
The world of work our young people are entering is changing faster than ever. AI, automation, new technologies, and entirely new industries will reshape not only the jobs available, but the skills required to succeed in them.
We have a responsibility to make sure young people do not simply experience that future as something that happens to them. We must equip them with the skills, tools, experiences, and opportunities they need to navigate it, contribute to it, and ultimately help shape it.
That requires all of us. Employers, educators, labor, government, philanthropy, and communities each have a role to play. That cross-sector commitment is at the heart of the Compact for America’s Youth.
Because the workers, builders, and leaders we will depend on tomorrow are sitting in classrooms, training programs, and communities across America today. Preparing them for what is coming is not just an education imperative. It is an economic imperative and an American imperative.
Grateful to everyone who came together to launch this important work.
11 Sep 2026
We all remember where we were on September 11, 2001.
I was in my first week of college in Greater Boston, not far from Logan Airport, where two of the planes that morning began their flights. Like millions of Americans, I watched what unfolded with disbelief and horror, slowly understanding that our country and our lives had changed.
I also remember what happened afterward. In the midst of unimaginable grief, Americans turned toward one another. First responders ran toward danger. Strangers helped strangers. People stood in lines for hours to give blood, even after hospitals had received more than they could use. Across differences of race, religion, geography, politics, and background, there was a powerful recognition that whatever else separated us, we belonged to one another.
Nearly 3,000 people were taken from their families that day. In the years that followed, first responders continued to bear the physical consequences of their service, and Americans in uniform served and sacrificed far from home. We honor all of them by remembering their names and their stories. But I believe we owe them something more: to remember the country we became for one another when it mattered most, and to defend the ideals for which so many sacrificed.
We will never recreate September 12, 2001, nor should we romanticize the fear and pain of that time. But we can recover something of its solidarity: the conviction that our common citizenship matters, that service is honorable, that courage is contagious, and that the ties binding us together are stronger than the forces trying to pull us apart.
Today, America confronts threats both old and new. The best tribute we can offer those we lost, the first responders who ran toward danger, those who answered the call to serve, and the families who carried their absence forward is not simply to remember the world that existed before that morning. Twenty-five years later, may we remember them. May we honor them. And may we never stop doing the work required to be worthy of them.
11 Sep 2026
Labor Day has always been about more than work. It is about the people who do it and what they deserve in return.
We are living through one of the most consequential technological transitions of our lifetimes. AI is reshaping tasks, occupations, companies, and industries. Much of the conversation understandably focuses on what machines will be able to do and what that will mean for people. But I increasingly believe we are asking the question backwards.
In the age of AI, people are not going to become less important. They are going to have to become more important.
AI can make knowledge abundant and capabilities once available to a few accessible to millions. But technology cannot decide what future we want, what we value, whose problems deserve solving, or what obligations we have to one another. Those remain profoundly human choices. The more powerful our technology becomes, the more consequential the people using it become.
That is why the defining workforce challenge of the AI era cannot simply be preparing people to coexist with machines. We need a much larger investment in human potential: finding talent everywhere, equipping people with skills that evolve as quickly as technology does, building better pathways between learning and work, and ensuring that when the ground shifts beneath someone’s feet, there is a bridge to what comes next. America has the people we need to build and power the industries of the future. Our job is to make sure opportunity can find them and they can find opportunity.
But good ideas are necessary and insufficient. Good intentions are, too. John F. Kennedy once said, “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” A broadly prosperous AI economy will not simply happen. Workers sharing in the gains of technological progress will not simply happen. We can write strategies, launch pilots, publish reports, and convene conferences, but ultimately ideas have to become institutions, investments, companies, jobs, and better lives.
07 Sep 2026
There are many ways to spend a week on Martha’s Vineyard. At its best, I think the Vineyard offers something increasingly rare: a place to rest and reconnect, but also a place where people from different sectors, backgrounds, and experiences can come together in common cause around issues that matter. This year, I was fortunate to experience a lot of that.
The centerpiece of my week was a special dinner hosted by Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein bringing together leaders around the work we are building through PRIME. We gathered an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs, investors, public officials, civic leaders, and friends around a simple but ambitious idea: that we can harness entrepreneurship and innovation to close gaps, strengthen communities, and improve lives at meaningful scale. What made the evening special was not simply who was around the table, but the sense of possibility around it. My deepest thanks to Mitch and Freada for their hospitality, their vision, and especially their unflagging urgency about translating good intentions into real impact. That urgency is one of the things I admire most about them, and it animates what we are trying to build together. Along with events with the Black Economic Alliance and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
And somewhere amid all of those conversations, there was also time to slow down, reconnect with old friends, make new ones, spend time with family, and appreciate what makes Martha’s Vineyard special. Rest and purpose do not have to be opposites. Community and consequential work can reinforce each other. At its best, the Vineyard creates room for both: a chance to recharge while bringing people together around the work still ahead.
05 Sep 2026
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