Maya Jenkins

We deserve a financial system that serves the public interest.

I’m a financial policy analyst and economic justice advocate. From federal rulemaking and legislation to grassroots campaigns, I’ve championed technical frameworks for a more just economy, inside government and out.

Economic JusticeFinancial StabilityPower Redistribution

Selected work

New report, October 2026

Brace for Impact

Protecting People and the Economy when the AI Bubble Bursts

How a handful of tech companies and their financial backers are fueling the AI bubble, and what policymakers can do so everyday people don’t bear the cost.

With Matt Scherer.

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Cover art by Naomi Pleasure-Park.

Cover of the report Brace for Impact.

Essay, Vision & Justice, April 2019

At Wadsworth House, Truth Reveals a History Obscured

On the Harvard plaque honoring Titus, Venus, Juba and Bilhah, and why the work of remembrance is never over. In Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum, edited by Sarah Lewis and published by Aperture.

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What I work on

AI and financial stability

The debt, circular financing and opacity behind the AI boom, and how a crash could reach the wider economy.

Financial system safeguards

Capital standards, stress tests and supervision: the post-2008 rules now being loosened.

Economic justice

Halting and reversing the accrual of money and power in the hands of the few. Protecting working people from corporate greed and shifting power over the economy into their hands.