The Institute is a touchstone for people around the world. So it is no surprise that many have spent decades contributing their voices to the Institute’s Society of Fellows and Heritage Society. In fact, some members of the Institute community have been attending events and engaging in weighty debates since the 1960s. “The Aspen Institute has been a springboard for impact,” Juliane Heyman, the first female Peace Corps training officer, says. “It has been a platform for people who go on to do great things—and even greater things after their experience at the Institute.” Curt Strand agrees. The former CEO of Hilton International (now Hilton Worldwide) has watched the Institute evolve over the years. Strand remembers Executive Seminar participants celebrating at the summit of Ajax Mountain when they got word of President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974. He also remembers getting a call 14 years ago from one Walter Isaacson. “I was one of the people Walter called for input on whether or not he should take the job as CEO and president of the Institute,” Strand says. “Walter has since become one of my heroes. He leaves an incredible legacy of growth and dynamism for the Institute.” So do all of our friends at the Society of Fellows and Heritage Society. aspeninstitute.org/heritage-society
A “Legacy of Growth and Dynamism”
Publications Section 4: Strengthening Practices to Improve Job Quality
Tools: Employee Ownership
View tools and resources related to employee ownership.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Centering Workers in Workforce Development
The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance collaborates with employers and stakeholders to boost employment, earnings, and equity for local workers.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
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.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
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.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
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.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
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.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
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.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
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.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
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.