Darren Walker

Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation.

Darren Walker and Henry Ford III meet in Detroit in 2024.

The real story of how the Ford family and Ford Foundation ended their decades-long estrangement

By Darren Walker and Edsel B. Ford II

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 21: Workers install solar panels during the completion phase of a 4-acre solar rooftop<br />
atop AltaSea’s research and development facility at the Port of Los Angeles, in the San Pedro neighborhood, on April 21, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. The installation will supply enough energy to power AltaSea’s 35-acre campus, the country’s biggest ‘blue economy’ tech hub, which is focused on clean oceans, climate resiliency, and clean energy. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Green jobs must be good jobs. America’s investment in the energy transition should restore the pathway to the middle class

By Darren Walker

Happy metal worker greeting his manager in aluminum mill.

Shared company ownership may be the missing path to the American dream

By Darren Walker and Pete Stavros

Employees make respiratory masks in a medical equipment factory in north Miami, Fla. on February 15, 2021. – A Florida company that saw an opportunity in the N95 mask shortage when the coronavirus pandemic began last year now has 30 million unsold masks because it can’t find buyers in the United States. DemeTech, a Miami-based factory, blames lower prices from China, while a wholesale buyer thinks instead that the problem is that US buyers are wary of new manufacturers. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

To end the pandemic, every business leader must put worker health and equity first

By Darren Walker and Chuck Robbins