The Aspen Challenge, launched by The Aspen Institute and the Bezos Family Foundation, provides a platform for young people to design solutions to some of the most critical and complicated problems we face. We've partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—representing more than 800,000 students—to launch the first Aspen Challenge in February, 2013. Read More
Geneva Overholser, professor and director of USC Annenberg's School of Journalism Charlie Firestone, Executive Director of Communications and Society Program, The Aspen Institute Read More
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