Videos

Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship Announces the Founding Cohort of the Health Innovators Accelerator

HIA marks the first expansion of HIF’s platform beyond the Fellowship itself — extending the same rigor and standard of leadership to a wider community of health leaders working to build what’s next for health.

September 16, 2026
Health Innovators Accelerator

How Tax Policy Can Help Employers Expand Access to Learning

In this interview, Chelsea Miller of Upskill America speaks with Nick Greif of InStride about how employers can design education benefits that are more accessible, strategic, and aligned with workforce goals.

September 8, 2026

Metrics that Matter: Improving Financial Analysis of CDFI Small Business Lenders

This is the final event in our Job Quality in Practice series. In this conversation, hosted by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on May 7, 2026, we hear from the Institute’s Job Quality Fellows who are embedding job quality into their work across a range of contexts and strategies — from employee ownership models that give workers a direct financial stake in their company’s success, to apprenticeship programs that create structured pathways to higher-wage careers, to worker advisory committees that bring employee voice into business decision-making.

September 2, 2026

The Impact of Foundational Skills on Workforce Success

This is the final event in our Job Quality in Practice series. In this conversation, hosted by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on May 7, 2026, we hear from the Institute’s Job Quality Fellows who are embedding job quality into their work across a range of contexts and strategies — from employee ownership models that give workers a direct financial stake in their company’s success, to apprenticeship programs that create structured pathways to higher-wage careers, to worker advisory committees that bring employee voice into business decision-making.

August 25, 2026

Happier Hours: Rethinking Time and Well-Being

Featuring behavioral scientist Cassie Holmes, exploring one of life’s most pressing questions: how can we spend our time to experience greater happiness and meaning in our days?

August 12, 2026

A New Blueprint for a Resilient Food System

2026 McNulty Prize Winner Tom McDougall is reimagining the food system. creating direct pathways from small farms to communities while strengthening local economies and expanding access to fresh food.

August 11, 2026
Tom McDougall at the 2026 Resnick Aspen Action Forum

Education as Resistance: Ukraine’s Underground Schools

2026 McNulty Prize Winner Anna Novosad is creating safe spaces for children to learn, connect, and belong amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

August 11, 2026
Anna Novosad at the 2026 Resnick Aspen Action Forum

Building an Economy That Works for Everyone

2026 McNulty Prize Winner Rudy Espinoza is expanding access to capital for entrepreneurs too often left out of traditional financial systems, turning local action into lasting economic opportunity.

August 11, 2026
Rudy Espinoza at the 2026 Resnick Aspen Action Forum

Reckoning with the World We’ve Built

Drawing on decades of witnessing conflict and humanitarian crises, Former USAID Administrator Gayle Smith and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dele Olojede explore what history teaches us about the enduring power of choosing to act.

August 11, 2026
2026 Resnick Aspen Action Forum - Reckoning with the World We've Built

Love, Power, and Action

Three leaders transformed profound experiences of loss and trauma into a commitment to healing, advocacy, and service, exploring what it means to reclaim humanity through love and action.

August 11, 2026
2026 Resnick Aspen Action Forum - On the Edge Panel