The Aspen Institute

The second session of AYLF St. Louis will convene Fellows at Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch the weekend of April 28. Here Fellows will unpack materials to explore a handful 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

Film:

• Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED, 2009
• “American Experience: Rachel Carson,” PBS, 2017
• “Citizenfour,” 2014