The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.
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Displaying What We Do: Justice & Equity
Business and Society Program
The Aspen Corporate Values Strategy Group (CVSG) is focused on promotingchanges in corporate and investment practice, as well as in public policy, to support long-term orientation in business...
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Justice and Society Program
July 11-17, 2013Aspen, COModerators:Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of CaliforniaMichael Fitts, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolEvery...
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Roundtable on Community Change
Research & Theory in the Service of Action: The Roundtable's work on structural racism began in response to a call from leaders in fields such as community revitalization, social policy...
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Roundtable on Community Change
The Roundtable on Community Change was established as a forum in which leaders working on some of the country’s most innovative and promising efforts to revitalize poor communities could...
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Publication | May 5, 2011 | Edited by Keith O. Lawrence, Essays by Michelle Alexander, Eric Cadora, Blake Emerson, Ian Haney Lopez, Marc Mauer, Alan Mobley, Alice O'Connor, Jonathon Simon and Phil Thomson
Roundtable on Community Change
Race, Crime and Punishment examines the linkage of race, crime, and punishment in the public mind, and offers strategies for reducing the severe racial disproportionalities in the criminal justice...
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Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process
The Commission was created to: Work with the White House, Congress and other interested parties to help identify and adopt measures to streamline and expedite the vetting process without sacrificing...
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