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In 1992, the idea for the Working Families' party began with the New Party, created by Daniel Cantor and Joel Rogers. Cantor was a staffer on Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign, and Rogers was a University of Wisconsin law professor and a Nation Magazine editor. From its founding until 2018, Cantor was the National Director of the WFP.
Daniel Cantor
"We see our role as speaking truth to power and saying things that the major parties either can’t or won’t say."
- Cantor
"You want to liberate the worker-owners of $5 trillion in assets–pensions, 401-K plans–to actually be real owners, in the sense of being able to dispose of those assets and to direct them in certain ways."
- Rogers
Joel Rogers
Maurice Mitchell is the current National Director of the Working Families Party, taking the helm in 2018. He is applying his passion and experience to make WFP the political home for a multi-racial working class movement.
"I’m excited, with the WFP, to lay out the case for a generational vision and contrasting that with apocalyptic vision the right is offering, where we have to batten down the hatches and isolate ourselves and turn on the rest of the world and turn on anybody who might not fit a very narrow, white, male, right, or center-right identity. "
-Mitchell
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