Sara

Sara Horowitz is the founder of the Mutualist Society, the Freelancers Union, and the Freelancers Insurance Company. Formerly board chair, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Sara is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and has been featured on NPR and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among other publications.  Sara serves on the ASETT International Advisory Board of the Mondragon Cooperatives. In her recent book, Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up, Sara looks at the crisis of work, the collapse of the safety net, and gives a vision for a better way forward, rooted in America’s cooperative spirit. In a sectoral network strategy connecting union, cooperative, faith, social enterprise, mutual aid, and alternative currency communities, Sara’s April 2025 article, “Mutualism: The Next Generation” (Stanford Social Innovation Review  - SSIR), sets the stage for a global movement rollout.