Breakfast with Gina Raimondo

Gina Raimondo served as the 40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2021 to 2025, where she led the administration's work on semiconductors, supply chains, and the economic security agenda around artificial intelligence. Before Washington she was the 75th Governor of Rhode Island, the first woman to hold the office, and earlier the state's General Treasurer. A Rhodes Scholar, she holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School.

RAISE US, which she co-founded with former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, is a bipartisan nonprofit partnering with states, employers, and educators to build the infrastructure Americans need to train, transition, and thrive in an AI economy. It launched in June 2026 with more than $500 million secured toward a $1 billion goal, backed by Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, the OpenAI Foundation, and a small group of founding philanthropies.

Joe Fuller co-leads Harvard Business School's Managing the Future of Work project, whose research on the skills gap, degree inflation, and how employers actually hire has shaped both corporate practice and public policy. Before joining the HBS faculty he co-founded the global consulting firm Monitor Group and led it for nearly three decades. He works closely with RAISE US.