IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Summer 2018

The Aspen Meadows Reception Center and Pavilion, built in 1958, will reopen as the Walter Isaacson Center, in recognition of Walter Isaacson’s service as Institute president and CEO.

Thanks to the experience of participating in the Aspen Challenge and the dedication of their teachers and coaches, our students are uniquely positioned to lead fundamental change around issues like climate change, the school-to-prison pipeline, and poverty.

The Aspen Health Strategy Group selects a single issue every year for in-depth study. Each issue reflects an urgent societal health challenge with clear opportunities to make a difference. Next, it will turn to chronic-disease prevention.

Now you can get closer than ever to the people doing the work at the Aspen Institute. Aspen Insight is the Institute’s new podcast; co-hosts Zach St. Louis and Marci Krivonen wander the Institute’s halls to learn from the people working every day to improve the planet.

Project Play, an initiative of the Institute’s Sports & Society Program, launched a new website—ProjectPlay.us—devoted to youth sports.

The Central America Leadership Initiative’s “Voces de Cambio” meeting was held earlier this year in San Salvador, El Salvador.

The Aspen Family Prosperity Innovation Community will develop strategies that strengthen employment options, economic security, and health and well-being.

In partnership with Aspen Film, the Institute’s NEW VIEWS Documentaries & Dialogue series presented the film I Am Jane Doe last summer. The documentary chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers have been waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters.

On February 5, the Institute’s Arts Program partnered with the Cooper Union and the Public Theater to bring together a range of renowned artists as well as famed Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel to address the question, Who needs truth?