The Aspen Institute

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