Aspen Insight

Get a window into Aspen Health Innovator Fellow Patrick Hine's experience as a physician during covid-19, as a father of two young Black boys, and how he dealt with the compounding challenges that took place as the pandemic intersected with systemic racial injustice. This conversation is hosted by Indu Subaiya, Aspen Health Innovator Fellow and founder of Health 2.0.

What will it take to bring the country together? The Civil Society Fellowship – a partnership of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network–AGLN- answers that question by engaging the next generation of community and civic leaders & activists on AGLN’s new Value of Leadership podcast. This episode is a repost of our sister podcast from the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN).

The Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute recently released its annual report. Listen to their Executive Director, Nikki Pitre, explain how it's a resource and roadmap to help decrease barriers and increase the opportunity for Native youth.

Despite the stories commonly taught about the first Thanksgiving, the truth behind this holiday is much darker. Listen to Nikki Petre of the Center for Native American Youth talk about what work is left to be done around a holiday that is constructed on false history, and how native youth across the country are creating positive change in their food systems.

Former US Secretary of Education John B. King and Former Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman believe the education sector can be a force for climate change. That's why they joined the Aspen Institute's K-12 Climate Action Commission to create a comprehensive action plan to address climate change in the United States by leveraging the power of the education sector.

It's one of the craziest election years in America's history, and it's inevitably causing a lot of stress. But cybersecurity expert and Aspen Tech Policy Hub Founding Director Betsy Cooper says we don't need to panic. She helps keep things realistic by explaining the different threats to election security this November and how probable the doomsday events actually are.

We preview the new “Shades of Freedom” podcast from the Institute’s Criminal Justice Reform Initiative. The initiative’s Director, Dr. Douglas E. Wood, spoke with Dr. Monique Morris about the criminalization of Black girls. Morris is the founder of National Black Women’s Justice Institute, the executive director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color, and the author of several books, including Pushout.

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30-40 million renters are at risk for eviction because of expiring eviction moratoriums across the country. Katherine Lucas Mckay, Senior Program Manager at Aspen's Financial Security Program, explains how we can stop evictions, the long-lasting effects it has on mental health, and why evictions will make it harder to vote.

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recently spoke with Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat and former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, about the new thinking required to tackle issues in the 21st century: a pandemic, climate change, war, and more.

Madeleine Albright is the founding member of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Minister’s Forum, which serves as a leading platform for nonpartisan dialogue aimed at building upon and improve the work of key international institutions.

East Harlem is an overlooked neighborhood of Manhattan, made vulnerable by structural racism and gentrification. But even before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, the neighborhood had its own preparedness organization run by women of color who work and live there. Listen as Ann-Gel Palermo—an East Harlem resident, an associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators fellow—discusses preparing for disaster.