Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.

Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder

Washington Post Feature on Ascend at the Aspen Institute, The New War on Poverty: Tackling Two Generations at Once

May 7, 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/05/07/the-new-war-on-poverty-tackling-two-generations-at-once/