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Executive Director, Lafayette Square Institute.

Jack Moriarty comes to the Lafayette Square Institute after founding Ownership America, a public policy organization committed to turning Americans into owners. He is a recognized national leader in the employee ownership movement and has led policy initiatives at the federal and state levels. Jack was a lead architect of the bipartisan American Ownership and Resilience Act (AORA) legislation introduced in 2025 with the aim of crowding in private investment to create wealth for American workers and communities. He has advised members of Congress in both parties and the White House on opportunities to accelerate the growth of employee ownership and has led successful bipartisan state legislative efforts in several states across the country. 

Prior to the public policy arena, Jack held a number of strategy and operations roles at healthcare delivery and technology companies including Iora Health, Buoy Health, and Allscripts. He also completed a term of service with AmeriCorps Cape Cod where he focused on infrastructure management and natural resource conservation.  

He also serves as the Assistant Director for Policy Analysis at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and the Experts’ Board of the Institute for Economic Democracy, an NGO based in Slovenia focused on promoting employee ownership structures across the European Union. 

Jack received his MBA from the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management where he was a Roy H. Park Leadership Fellow. He received BA & MA in Political Science from Boston University.