Haley Swenson was born and raised in a small town in Utah, and has since lived in Tennessee, Ohio, and now Washington, DC, before moving to southern Utah as a result of the pandemic with her wife in 2020. She graduated with a PhD in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies from Ohio State University in 2016. Throughout her career she has been committed to teaching young feminists how to engage and write for the public and to teaching the larger public about the significance of gender inequality and work-life conflict to their own lives. Haley is available for lectures and workshops on the future of work, gender, and family, and the policies and practices that can make it brighter. Haley is currently writing a book on the future of the family and how decisions we make now can sabotage the choices of future families.

Swenson is currently the deputy director of the Better Life Lab at New America, where she manages major research projects and editorial strategy. Her latest major projects include the Better Life Lab’s Men and Caregiving study, Better Life Lab Experiments, and a nationwide mapping project of innovations in child care.