Sarita Gupta is the Vice President of the Ford Foundation’s U.S. Programs, overseeing the foundation’s domestic work including Civic Engagement and Government, Creativity and Free Expression, Future of Work(ers), Technology and Society, Disability Rights, and Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice.

She is the co-author, with Erika Smiley, of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, published by Cornell University Press in April 2022.

Gupta is serving as this year’s Wayne Morse Chair.