Todd Wolfson

Todd Wolfson is the president of the American Association of University Professors, a nonprofit organization of higher education faculty and other academic professionals. For the last six years, he has been in leadership of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, which represents 6,000 faculty, grad workers, postdocs and counselors at Rutgers University.

Wolfson is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. He is an anthropologist by training, and he has written and edited three books, 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 Media in the Age of Convergence (2021), along with dozens of peer-reviewed articles. He is also co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.

Prior to his work as an academic union leader, Wolfson worked as a community and labor organizer in Philadelphia.