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Dr. Eric L. Motley is a Vice President of the Aspen Institute and the Managing Director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program.

Filed in Blog Topics: Letter from Birmingham Jail, The Aspen Seminar

Charlie Firestone is the executive director of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program.

Cinthia Schuman is deputy director for Philanthropy Programs for The Aspen Institute Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation.

Meryl Justin Chertoff is the director of the Institute’s Justice and Society Program and former director of the Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law.

On April 8, the Institute's Global Health and Development program hosted a panel to discuss the window of opportunity referred to as the demographic dividend: when fertility rates decline and policy investments increase across sectors—such as health, education, finance and security— to jumpstart economic growth.

Filed in Blog Topics: Global Health and Development, USAID, World Bank, Demographics

While Aspen Institute Trustee Leonard Lauder made news for his recent contribution of a $1 billion Cubism collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the high art of his Picassos and Braques is but one of his art collections.

Filed in Blog Topics: Leonard Lauder, Metropolitan Museum of Art

"As a musician, I'm trained to do two things at the same time: work toward a goal larger than myself and pay attention to the smallest possible detail,” said recently named 2013 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence

Filed in Blog Topics: Yo-Yo Ma, Citizen Artist, Arts Program, Damian Woetzel

Tom Farrey, the director of the Sports and Society program at the Aspen Institute, is an Emmy Award-winning journalist for ESPN and author of the book, Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of our Children.

As we remember former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the day of her passing, we found this record of her visit to the Aspen Institute on Aug. 5, 1990. The Iron Lady, along with then-President George H. W. Bush, came to Aspen to celebrate the Institute's 40th anniversary.

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