The Aspen Institute

Session Themes

Challenge of Leadership: justice, courage, vulnerability, and integrity

Know Yourself: core values, purpose, responsibility and conviction, living a good life based on virtue

Community and Society: social good, community values, and social change

Power, Privilege, and Class: freedom, democracy, suppression, and oppression

Readings:

• The Declaration of Independence
• “The Paradox of the Declaration of Independence” by Leslie Green Bowman
• Liberators: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence, 1810-1830 by Robert Harvey
• “A Biography of Mahatma Gandhi” by Jennifer Rosenberg
• “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• “The Innovator’s DNA,” Harvard Business Review
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Film:

• Gandhi