New Voices Fellows

To control the pandemic over the longer term, investments and protections must extend beyond government agencies.

They are building relationships with both funders and local communities based on trust and mutual understanding.

These 25 development experts will focus on reproductive rights, social policy, and more.

What does it look like when people rise to the challenge and lead the charge to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems?

A New Voices fellow shares his experience. The fellowship is accepting nominations for 2018.

New Voices Fellow Sisonke Msimang took the stage in New York City to tell a story about the merits of sitting still.

Caitlyn Jenner chats with Bisi Alimi, the first person to come out as gay on Nigerian television.

When we rely on income alone to measure poverty, we misdiagnose the needs of poor people.

Who tells our stories — whether on the movie screen or in the newspaper opinion pages — matters. The Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship broadens the global development conversation, bringing new perspectives to the media’s coverage of health and development issues. The New Voices Fellows are telling the story of development, thereby changing the development process itself.

Kennedy Odede’s new book “Find Me Unafraid,” co-written with his wife, chronicles their lives, their love story, and their work in his hometown, which has one of the largest slums in Africa.