Areas of Agreement

Episode 12: Bridging Generational Divides and Rebuilding Trust


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Conversations around diversity often focus on race, gender, politics, socioeconomic status, geography,  even education level. What about generational diversity? We are an age-diverse society, with almost equal numbers of people alive from every stage of life. But often, generations are siloed, leading to division and misunderstanding. This episode features conversations with leaders in the movement to bring older and younger generations together to bridge divides. First, Eunice Lin Nichols, co-CEO of CoGenerate, and Dr. Cal Halvorsen, a senior research fellow at CoGenerate and an assistant professor at Boston College, discuss a recent study on what Americans think about cogeneration, and how to make intergenerational initiatives successful. Then, Joe Bubman of Urban-Rural Action and Deborah Tien of Common Agency/UR Action speak about being Gen2Gen Innovation Fellows, and Tien discusses how her organization is seeking to build a new type of neighborhood network online and in person. 

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  • Elia Powers (@eliapowers)
  • Learn More:

    • Urban-Rural Action (https://www.uraction.org/)
    • REPORT: Cogeneration: A National Opinion Survey from Encore.org (now CoGenerate) with NORC at the University of Chicago’s AmeriSpeak Panel (https://tinyurl.com/3tud4cs9)
    • Common agency (https://commonagency.org/)
    • Credit: Music By Blue Dot Sessions

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