Todd Wolfson

Dr. Todd Wolfson is president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which represents more than 50,000 faculty and higher education workers across 550 campuses nationwide. He is also a national vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and a longtime leader of the Rutgers Academic Workers Union, where he has helped represent 6,000 faculty, graduate workers, postdocs, and counselors. In 2023, he helped lead the first multi-union strike in Rutgers’ 257-year history, with 9,000 workers walking out and winning major gains.

Wolfson is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. Trained as an anthropologist, he is the author or editor of several books—including Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014), The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (2017), and The Gig Economy: Workers and the Media in the Age of Convergence (2021)—as well as dozens of peer-reviewed articles. He co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change (MIC) Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Before becoming an academic labor leader, Wolfson worked as a community and labor organizer in Philadelphia.