Kristen Harknett, PhD, is a Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from Princeton University, and previously served as a core faculty member at University of Pennsylvania in the Departments of Sociology and Demography. Kristen co-directs The Shift Project, a large-scale survey and research study of low-wage workers in the service sector, which maps the connections between job quality and worker health and wellbeing. Her research includes examinations of routine work-schedule instability, access to paid sick leave, gender and racial/ethnic inequalities in working conditions, and the nature and consequences of automation and surveillance in workplaces. Drawing on her research, she has provided invited testimony to inform federal, state, and local policymaking around fair workweek regulations, including the Federal Schedules That Work Act, and legislation in California, Washington State, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other localities.