Becky Chao is the Research Director for the Build the Field team at Economic Security Project. In this role, she leads research that creates the conditions for policy change and paradigm shift in guaranteed income and marketshaping. Previously, she was the Director of Antimonopoly at ESP, where she organized resources, ideas, and people across policy, grassroots, academic, and philanthropic spaces to build a sustained, robust antimonopoly movement.

Her work has been driven by an interest in exploring how corporate power, law, and policy structure people’s lives and society at large and building a fair, democratic, and egalitarian political economy. She was previously a fellow and policy analyst at New America’s Open Technology Institute, where her research and advocacy focused on antitrust and tech/telecom issues, privacy, and broadband competition. Prior to joining New America, she worked on antitrust cases and merger review across a variety of sectors as an honors paralegal at the Federal Trade Commission.