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Faces

October 1, 2017
Aspen Ideas Festival

Laurie Tisch


Katie Couric


Kitty Boone


Donna Barksdale, Allan Golston


Jackie and Mike Bezos


James Fallows


Colin Jost, Michael Che


Michele Norris, Mitch Landrieu


Andrea Mitchell


Lynda Resnick, Barbara Streisand

Socrates Program

Annie Hosier, Walter Isaacson, Jerry Hosier


Kay Bucksbaum


Sarayu Srinivasan, Lars Miethke


Darius Jones, Alexandra Davis, Elisabeth Dinu, Saadia Sultan, Shizu Okusa, Jonathan Quarles


Gary Lauder, Madeleine Albright


Gayle Barge, Cheryl Johnson, Monica Ramirez, Madeleine Albright, Laura Taylor-Kale, Thuli Mhlungu, Navdiva Figueroa, Rashida Winfrey


Bill Budinger


Ken and Erin Sawyer


Seth Goldman, Laura Lauder, Ronit and Bill Berkman


Madeleine Albright, Jim Crown

Summer Celebration

Ann Nitze, Francis Najafi, Alireza Ittihadieh


Katherine Farley, Nancy Crown, Gillian Steel


Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Annie Hosier


Diane Morris


Mike Klein, Joan Fabry, Elaine Pagels


Richard and Sylvia Kaufman


Paula Crown, Mark Hoplamazian


Bob Steel, Lynda and Stewart Resnick


Walter Isaacson, Madeleine Albright, Margot Pritzker


Roy Bostock, Ken Hubbard


Bobby McDuffie

Da Vinci Celebration

Laurie Tisch


Bob Steel


Mary Mochary


Lynda Resnick, Jan Greenberg


Bill Mayer, Peggy Culver


Richard and Susan Finkelstein


Michelle Smith,, Mary Mochary


Dionne Najafi, Doren Pinnell, Karen Amadon


Stefan Edlis


Anne McNulty, William Wallace


Mike Bezos

Longform Publications Section 4: Strengthening Practices to Improve Job Quality

Tools: Employee Ownership

View tools and resources related to employee ownership.

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Centering Workers in Workforce Development

The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance collaborates with employers and stakeholders to boost employment, earnings, and equity for local workers.

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Lessons and Leadership To Foster Economic Justice for Illinois Workers

LEP trains workers to promote equity, enforce rights, build unions, develop leaders, ensure workplace safety, and advance economic justice.

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Worker Owned and Worker Driven

While the rideshare apps have increased convenience, they’ve eroded job quality. See how the Drivers’ Cooperative is helping to end exploitative conditions.

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Creating Employee-Owned Businesses That Provide Good Jobs and Succeed

Through employee ownership, The Industrial Commons is building a new Southern working class that erases the inequities of generational poverty.

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Strengthening the Hidden Resilience Workforce

We see the effects of climate change, but we rarely see the people who help to rebuild — and they often lack safe conditions, decent pay, or benefits.

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Advancing a Pro-Worker, Pro-Climate Agenda in Texas

The Texas Climate Jobs Project advances a pro-worker, pro-climate agenda — helping to solve the climate crisis while creating millions of good jobs.

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Organizing and Coalition Building for Structural Change

LAANE, led by Job Quality Fellow Roxana Tynan, is fighting to build an economy rooted in good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.

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Organizing Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

UWU, led by Job Quality Fellow Neidi Dominguez, engages unemployed/underemployed workers, a population that has not been mobilized at scale since the 1930s.

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How Local Journalism Can Bring Communities Together

MIT Center for Constructive Communication Director Deb Roy explains how the caricatures Republicans and Democrats paint of each other diverge from reality, and the ways local newsrooms can leverage their “trust capital” and emerging technology to promote listening and understanding amid disagreement.