Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship: Newark Cohort II Session I
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:
Event information
Date
Fri May 4, 2018 - Sun May 6, 2018
Contact
Location
Rutgers University-Newark
Newark, NJ