The Moonshot Platform: Rethink What’s Possible
Hosted in Partnership with the Henry Crown Fellowship, 2019 Henry Crown Fellows, and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
Gain insight from an inspiring line up of thought leaders from government, science, industry, and the arts to spotlight innovative solutions that address the inequality divide in education, access to technology, and economic opportunities as well as the leadership skills required to get there.
Breakdown of the Social Contract: A Dialogue and Workshop with Lebanese Fellows on the Challenges of Leadership in Difficult Times
Hosted in Partnership with the Middle East Leadership Initiative and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
AGLN Fellows in Lebanon share reflections on and learnings from their experience living through compounding crises in the country. As we all continue to navigate roles in an increasingly unstable and uncertain world these insights are all the more relevant regardless of where you live and lead.
Politics in America Today: What it is Like to Run for Office
Hosted in Partnership with the Rodel-Fellowships in Public Leadership and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
Do you want to gain insight into how or why politicians do what they do? Could the next step in your leadership journey include elected office? Get advice from those who of done in this conversation with Secretary Julián Castro and Congresswoman-elect Stephanie Bice.
Activism in a Digital Age
Hosted in Partnership with the Africa Leadership Initiative - East Africa and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
What are the benefits and costs of speaking truth to power? How can activism be responsible and effective in this age of instant communication? Hear Fellows involved in recent social change movements around Africa and the U.S., including #EndSARS, assess goals, gain and gaps as lessons for future reform efforts.
Unjust Societies: The Urgent Need for Collective Action
Hosted in Partnership with the Africa Leadership Initiative - West Africa and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
How can we leverage collective action across generations and sectors to catalyze impact? Gain insight from Fellows in the Africa Leadership Initiative - West Africa.
Equity and Race
There Are No “Others”: Our Role in the Migration Crisis
Hosted in Partnership with the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship, Ideas India, and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
Crises around the world have led to vast migrations of people, leaving many abandoned by the very system they served. Who are these ‘others’? Where are they going and why? What will they face? Who is responsible for their well-being? Fellows responding to the migration crisis challenge one another to redefine their own circles and act.
Equity By Design: Building Toward the Just Society
Hosted in Partnership with the Liberty Fellowship and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
Design plays a crucial role in how we experience life as individuals and as communities. Yet, the design of built environments has created a separation between populations in communities. How can built environments play a role in integrating populations within a community? Watch this discussion featuring Fellows leveraging their skills as architects and designers to create built environments that are more equitable.
(Re)Imagining Racial Equity: Transformation & Healing Towards a Just Future
Hosted in Partnership with the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and Resnick Aspen Action Forum
In the midst of great trauma and national upheaval, how do we imagine a society rooted in racial justice, systemic equity, and liberation for all, and where individuals emerge through catalytic shifts whole and healed? Listen in on this discussion with high-impact leaders who center racial equity in their work, while utilizing practices rooted in healing and true transformation. Hear how these leaders lift up practices for both personal application and in leading complex systems.
Leading in a Time of Crisis: Equity Centered COVID-19 Recovery
Hosted by the Aspen Global Leadership Network
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a unique moment in history. During this discussion, we will probe whether this is also a moment for a hard-reset, in terms of our redesigning a more equitable society. What are we willing to give up in pursuit of an equitable society? How must system-leaders lead to achieve it?
Leading in a Time of Crisis: The Heightened Education Gap
Hosted by the Aspen Global Leadership Network
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the education gap that affects students globally. This is especially visible for underserved communities around the world. How do we come up with a working alternative that serves all students? How will the pandemic reshape education? Watch a conversation with global leaders in education as they share their knowledge in combating the impact of COVID-19 on education.
Healing and Civil Dialogue
Towards a More Civil Society: Conversations Across America
Hosted in partnership with the Civil Society Fellowship, a partnership of ADL and the Aspen Institute, and the Resnick Aspen Action Forum
Watch this Town Hall - a national conversation about the state of the United States following the 2020 Presidential Election - to gain insight from a diversity of leaders and community members on what the country needs to do to live up to its ideals.
Where We Go from Here: Towards an Actionable Agenda for Radical Healing
Hosted in partnership with the Health Innovators Fellowship and the Resnick Aspen Action Forum
A global pandemic, racism, political polarization, and economic devastation. 2020 ushered in new crises and laid bare longtime, simmering wounds. We will learn to cope, but how do we thrive? Health Innovators Fellows reflect on these traumas and offer ways to leverage our collective energy to move us toward radical healing.
COVID-19: Health Care at an Inflection Point by the Health Innovators Fellowship and Health Medicine and Society Program
Rationing Health Care: By Intention or Default?
Hosted in partnership by the Health Innovators Fellowship and Health Medicine and Society Program
The U.S. has long rationed health care—by factors that include income, immigration status, age, and disability—but it’s rarely explicit or acknowledged. When the coronavirus struck, Americans were forced to confront this uncomfortable fact. How did this impact the ability for the U.S. health care system to respond to the impacts of the pandemic? Health Innovators Fellows discuss in this session.
COVID-19 Testing: The Hope and the Hype
Hosted in partnership by the Health Innovators Fellowship and Health Medicine and Society Program
The roadmap to recovery from the pandemic relies heavily on testing—for both the presence of COVID-19 and the antibodies that might make people immune. Health Innovators Fellows breakdown the challenges and realities of testing and how it impacts the path through the pandemic.
American Racism Through the Lens of COVID-19
Hosted in partnership by the Health Innovators Fellowship and Health Medicine and Society Program
This pandemic has further exposed the long-standing inequities and injustices that people of color, particularly Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people, experience within the U.S. health care system. How does racism play a role? Health Innovators Fellows on the frontlines of health care discuss the visible and invisible through line of racism and its impact on health care's response to pandemic.
Business and Technology
Leading in a Time of Crisis: The Role of Tech Companies
Hosted by the Aspen Global Leadership Network
During the pandemic, technology companies are playing a key role in providing innovative services and platforms for communities to come together, filling the gaps left by overstretched NGOs and government entities. Hear how two leaders in technology space share how they are leading with values to leverage the abilities of their companies to respond to the challenges of the pandemic.
Leading with Values: How the Food and Tourism Industries Will Adapt for the Post-Pandemic World
Hosted by the Aspen Global Leadership Network
This global crisis has created a catalyst of change in consumer behaviors and expectations in the food and tourism industries. Watch Fellows from the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Global Leadership Network as they discuss the values-based leadership decisions they’ve made that impact their employees and customer safety while employing new strategies to diversify their revenue streams.
Leading in a Time of Crisis: How Time Horizons Influence Priorities
Hosted in Partnership with the Finance Leaders Fellowship and Aspen Global Leadership Network
During the COVID-19 pandemic, investors and company operators have had to focus on immediate needs and decisions to keep their companies afloat, which has led to the delay or cancellation of longer-term projects and investments. Explore the types of long-term efforts that have been affected: everything from research & development to progress made on environmental matters, equity, and community engagement.
Leading in a Time of Crisis: Global Warning
Hosted by the Aspen Global Leadership Network
For many global companies, the spread of COVID-19 has meant growing disruptions to global supply chains and major hits to their operations without a clear end in sight. hear from business leaders in China who have been at the forefront of the response, and how they've faced tough decisions that put their values and resolves to the test.
