As Freelancers Union's Founder and Executive Director, Sara Horowitz has been helping the new workforce build solutions together for two decades. A MacArthur Foundation "Genius" fellow and Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve of New York, Sara is a leading voice for the emerging economy. Today, 53 million Americans are independent workers - about one-third of the entire workforce. With a membership of more than 250,000 nationwide, Freelancers Union is building a new form of unionism through creative, cooperative, market-based solutions to today's social challenges.