Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder
Aspen Institute
Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship: Newark Session II
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
The second session of AYLF Newark will convene Fellows on the campus of Rutgers University-Newark the weekend of June 9. Fellows will unpack materials to explore a number of themes that are directly relevant to the development of the leadership skills necessary to effectively engage their communities.
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:
Atul Gawande, “Desperate Measures,” The New Yorker, May 5, 2003
Andy Weir, “The Egg”
Andrew Buncombe, “Alang: The Place Where Ships Go to Die,” The Independent, Aug 30, 2009
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, Hamiliton: The Revolution
Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED, 2009
Film:
Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED, 2009
“American Experience: Rachel Carson,” PBS, 2017
“Citizenfour,” 2014
“Hamilton’s America: Full Film,” PBS, 2016
Music:
Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording
The second session of AYLF Newark will convene Fellows on the campus of Rutgers University-Newark the weekend of June 9. Fellows will unpack materials to explore a number of themes that are directly relevant to the development of the leadership skills necessary to effectively engage their communities.
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:
Atul Gawande, “Desperate Measures,” The New Yorker, May 5, 2003
Andy Weir, “The Egg”
Andrew Buncombe, “Alang: The Place Where Ships Go to Die,” The Independent, Aug 30, 2009
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, Hamiliton: The Revolution
Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED, 2009
Film:
Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED, 2009
