Youth

We don’t provide black and brown kids the opportunities to mess up like their white peers.

India has 600 million citizens under age 25. Their aspirations will define the world’s future.

Students from Philadelphia and Chicago will be presenting at the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer thanks to these initiatives.

Students from Philadelphia and Chicago will be presenting at the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer thanks to these initiatives.

Participatory budgeting can give communities control over where their money goes.

For this year’s Aspen Challenge event, 160 teens were challenged by five business and community leaders.

This report offers a deep dive into the central idea behind Project Play.

Hearing civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis speak about his experiences in Selma, Alabama, at lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, and at the March on Washington is undeniably moving and inspiring. But hearing him describe the minute details of those seminal events — and his personal story that led him there — transported an Aspen Institute audience back to a time, not too long ago, that serves as a lingering reminder of why we should never forget the evils of discrimination and segregation.