Celebrating its 15th year, the Aspen Ideas Festival has become one of the nation’s most noted forums for civil discourse. It’s only appropriate that its online presence be a modern, digital hub and a vital addition to the expansive and inspiring discussions that take place in Aspen. This May, the festival launched the next iteration of aspenideas.org, where the substance of the 10-day event lives and where visitors can delve into a rich video archive of talks, browse collections by topic, listen to podcasts, and share salient ideas on social media. “Redesigning the website gave us the opportunity to rethink how we communicate what we learn here to larger audiences,” says Kitty Boone, the Institute’s vice president of public programs and the executive director of the festival. “We want to inspire curiosity about the most novel and exciting ideas that experts and leaders are working on today.” With 350 presenters annually—scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, artists, and business leaders among them—the festival hosts revered leaders as well as highly respected but lesser known experts on topics like genetics, animal cognition, creativity, and religion. “Whether you want to learn more about CRISPR, hear smart and civilized discussions about free speech, or be dazzled by Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis riffing their way through the American song book, there’s something for everyone,” Boone says. “We hope it’s a delight for the curious and a resource for anyone who considers themselves a lifelong learner.”
The Digital Festival
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.