Aspen Challenge: Philadelphia Competition
Eight weeks ago, Explorer at Large founder and CEO Josh Berstein, the Anti-Defamation League’s Randi Boyette, University of Pennsylvania oncologist and bioethicist Ezekiel Emmanuel, Mural Arts Philadelphia executive director Jane Golden, and ACHIEVEability executive director Jamila Harris-Morrison issued challenges to 19 teams of School District of Philadelphia high school students. On Wednesday, April 11, teams will present their solutions before a panel of judges and their peers for a chance to present on the Aspen Ideas Festival stage this summer.
JUDGES
- Nick Bayer, founder and CEO, Saxbys
- Elzat Erken, youth commissioner, Philadelphia Youth Commission
- Donna Frisby-Greenwood, president and CEO, Fund for the School District of Philadelphia
- Wayne Kimmel, managing partner, SeventySix Capital
- Otis Hackney, chief education officer, City of Philadelphia
- Sean Vereen, president, Steppingstone Scholars
- Danielle Wolf, executive director, M. Night Shyamalan Foundation
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Greg Corbin, Jr., founder, Philly Youth Poetry Movement; program director, Social Justice Leadership Institute for the American Friends Service Committee
- John Dugan, director of program quality, design, and assessment, Youth & Engagement Programs
- William R. Hite, superintendent, School District of Philadelphia
- Jim Kenney, mayor of Philadelphia
- M. Night Shyamalan, screenwriter, director, and producer
Event information
Date
Wed Apr 11, 2018
Location
Drexel University, Mitchell Auditorium
3140 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA