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Most people see the Middle East as hopelessly insecure. But
most people havent met the Middle Eastern entrepreneurs
on the vanguard of high-impact tech. Middle East Programs
Toni Verstandig and Peter Walker Kaplan describe what
happens when ten of the Middle Easts most exciting business
leaders go to Silicon Valleyand what it means for the region.
60 | ART IN THE TIME OF WAR
Its easy to think of military veterans as rigorously trained,
hardworking, and disciplined. And its easy to see art as a
lawless, free-wheeling process. But when veterans combine their
serious sense of purpose with the fine arts, what they produce
is extraordinary. Sacha Zimmerman looks at how some
Institute friends and veterans have used art to heal, to go to
extremes, and to make some sense of the meaning of war.
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Central American girls often have few opportunities in life
and fewer role models. Thats why the women of the Central
America Leadership Initiative stepped up and built a regional
mentoring program from scratch. The Aspen Global Leadership
Networks Caitlin Colegrove shows why the next generation
of Central American leaders are young women.
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million people, or 17 percent of the population. By 2060, those numbers are expected to
more than double. That means Latinos are intrinsically linked to Americas future. Yet Latino
issues and representation lag in public discourseand in halls of power. This seismic shift is a
net positive: More and more, young people are needed to fill jobs and contribute to an aging
population. Thats why the Institutes Latinos and Society Program is dedicated to improving
Latinos educational and workforce opportunities. After all, by 2044, the United States will be a
majority minority country. aspeninstitute.org/latinos-society
20.4%
43%
All US Businesses
Latino Businesses
Latinos are
20.4% of all new
entrepreneurs.
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH
IS ESSENTIAL TO
CREATIVITY.
Ai Weiwei
Weiwei
Kay
Lewis
Yassine El Mansouri
Lee
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CORE STRENGTH
In November, the Institutes Education and Society Program
launched CoreReadySchools.org, a web-based tool designed to
help schools strengthen implementation of the Common Core
State Standards or the college- and career-ready standards in
their state. Core Ready Schools enables teachers and principals
to assess, plan, and measure improvement efforts over multiple
years. This tool assists schools as they make strategic decisions
about professional learning and instructional improvement
and provides links to curated resources designed to accelerate
implementation efforts. The response from education watchers
has been tremendous. Core Ready Schools is currently being
used across the Hillsborough County Public Schools and Los
Angeles Unified School District (approximately 1,350 schools
combined across both regions). According to Lynn DoughertyUnderwood, Hillsboroughs director of literacy, Core Ready
Schools is providing our teachers and school principals with a
method to identify school-wide gaps [and] make immediate
decisions to address the gaps. Plans are under way to embed
Core Ready Schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Newark
Public Schools, and Long Beach Unified School District.
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have
portfolios
that meet
or exceed
established
financial
metrics.
69%
90%
meet or exceed
social metrics.
invest in areas
that support
low-income
families and
those most
in need.
Doug Farrar
Christopher Duggan
HISTORY OF A PLAGUE
The first volume of Pulitzer Prizewinner Larry Kramers magnum opus on the US history of
AIDS, The American People, was published in April. Decades in the making, the release was
followed in June by an HBO documentary about Kramers life and work. Kramer joined Arts
Program Director Damian Woetzel at Roosevelt House this spring to discuss his writing
from the novel that made him notorious, Faggots, to his most famous work, The Normal
Heart. A celebrated public-health and gay-rights advocate, Kramer co-founded the Gay Mens
Health Crisis in 1982 and ACT UP in 1987. With public demonstrations and the indelible slogan
Silence=Death, ACT UP protested the FDAs plodding steps in bringing AZT to market and is
credited with motivating the agency to get the drug out faster. Kramers contributions to gay
rights and American letters are matched only by his reputation for irascibility. But as Kramer
said to Woetzel, Dont pay attention to what people say about you, whether its good or bad.
It just gets in the way of the work. aspeninstitute.org/arts
Kramer
Michael Green
International Director of
Restitution at Christies
Monica Dugot with an
original Egon Schiele
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Christopher Michel
The Institutes Aspen Global Leadership Network is launching its newest fellowship program,
the Health Innovators Fellowship, focused on leaders in US health care. The programa
partnership with the Greenville Health System, South Carolinas largest not-for-profit health
care system and an advocate for healthy-living initiativeswill be led by Rima Cohen, former
director of health and social services for New York Citys Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former
health-policy counselor to the US Health and Human Services secretary. The fellowships goal
is to strengthen health care innovators leadership and connect, inspire, and challenge them
to develop creative approaches to improve Americans health and well-being. Fellows will
represent a range of professionsincluding health care practitioners, policymakers, device
manufacturers, insurers, tech entrepreneurs, and nonprofits. The Greenville Health System has
pledged an extraordinary $4.3 million to underwrite the first three classes of 20 Fellows each.
The first class starts in November. aspeninstitute.org/hif
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HEALTH OF A NATION
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A SPORTING CHANCE
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BEING
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Michael Smith
Belafonte
There are a lot of things I dont comprehend until Ive written something about them, Jess
Walter, best-selling author of Beautiful Ruins, said at the launch of the Aspen Words 2015 Winter
Words series, which brought five acclaimed authors to Colorado to offer unique perspectives
on writing. Former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prizewinner Natasha Trethewey read from
her latest book, Thrall, and said, [I am] a poet interested not only in the sounds of language and
in its beauty, but in its ability
to help us deal with our
Lewis
most difficult knowledge.
New Yorker staff writer
George Packer discussed
his journalism career and his
book The Unwinding, which
won the 2013 National Book
Award: When I wrote The
Unwinding, it was out of a
sense of anger and a real
sense of affection for my
country. Best-seller Michael
Lewis (Flash Boys, The Blind
Side, Moneyball) described
his all-too-human subjects:
Theyre all disruptive.
Theyre all in some argument
with the world around them.
Finally, in April, Ruth Ozeki
talked about her latest novel,
A Tale for the Time Being.
The book is very much
about the physicality of
books, the enduring nature
of matter. aspenwords.org
Erin Baiano
LANGUAGE ARTS
ART STRUCK
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LATINOS RISING
Why a Latinos program at the
Institute? Latinos are driving
population growth and the
economy in the United States..
The average age of a Latino
living in the United States is
27 compared with 41 for white
Americans, and Latinos will
account for 40 percent of US
job growth over the next five
years (see The Latino Edge on
page 13). Yet an understanding
of this community is lacking
in important decision-making
circles. Thats why the new
Latinos and Society Program
infuses the work of the Institute
with Latino voices and faces,
thanks to a generous gift from
the Ricardo Salinas Scholarship
Fund focusing on education,
economic opportunity, and civic
participation. The program plans
to develop a new generation of
Latino leaders. The programs
inaugural summit, Americas
Future, held in May, featured
a keynote address by US
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Julian Castro,
as well as a conversation with
CEO and Chairman of Graham
Holdings Company Donald
Graham and Assistant to the
President and Director of
the Domestic Policy Council
Cecilia Muoz. The summit also
included panels with Latino
business leaders, entrepreneurs,
and Fellows from the Aspen
Global Leadership Network.
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Jennifer Bradley, founding director of the Center for Urban Innovation, talks with Air BNB CEO Brian Chesky
about how the sharing economy affects city life.
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America works best when every individual is invested in a positive vision for our collective
future. Those are the opening words to the Institutes Franklin Project pledge, which
encourages young Americans to serve the country for one year. Enlisting America: A Call
to National Service from Those Who Have Served advances the idea that there are many
ways to serve the United Stateswhether through military or civilian national service. Three
hundred retired flag and general officers as well as 60 retired sergeants major have already
signed the pledge. And, in February, Franklin Project Director Jay Mangone published Why
Every American Should Pledge One Year of Public Service in Task & Purpose to outline and
promote the projects vision. Originally unveiled by Lieutenant General (ret.) John D. Gardner
at the projects summit at Gettysburg, the Franklin Project re-released the pledge this winter
and publicized it for signatures from the entire military, veterans, and family community. You
can read the pledge here: franklinproject.org/pledge
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
DISCONNECT
HARVARD HONORS
DAMIAN WOETZEL
80%
INADEQUATE
Nearly 80 percent of schools say
their broadband connections are
inadequate to meet their needs.
74%
Black
Households
White
Households
53%
40%
Latino
Households
of US households making
below $30,000 have no
high-speed internet
at home.
Sources: The Communications and Society Programs reports Learner at the Center of
a Networked World and Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries.
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TRAVELOGUE
Two new programs take the Institutes dynamic programming on the road.
The past year saw the launch of the Institutes newest traveling programs:
Aspen Across America, which ventures out into the nation; and Aspen
Around Town, which takes a deeper dive into life in Washington. Aspen
Across America promotes dialogue across the country with thoughtful
conversations on topics such as business, immigration, health reform,
education, the future of cities, and art in America. Public forums and
private gatherings bring together Institute friends, supporters, and
alumni with new groups interested in the Institutes workand bring
Institute content to a diverse audience across the nation. Meanwhile,
Aspen Around Town will feature special public events in and around
Washington, DC, and will be presented jointly with prominent
Washington-based cultural institutions. The events will showcase a
range of topics with nationally recognized leaders and noted experts.
Since November, both projects have hit the ground running. Here are
just a few. aspeninstitute.org/aaa
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Crystal Bridges
Museum of
American Art
Society of Fellows members flew to Bentonville, Arkansas, for a trip to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The group
was also welcomed into the home of prolific folk-art collectors to view their collection and discuss collecting. The day ended
with a dinner talk on art and museums with Crystal Bridges Founder Alice Walton.
Sant
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Rodin
Orszag
The Director
This is a post-Snowden novel. Its the intersection of hacking and espionage. For a
spy novelist, all the themes that you write aboutthe classic themes of penetration,
moles, manipulation, deceptionall those themes [are now] going to go into zeros
and ones. It is going to be about stealing the other sides systemsnot recruiting the
chief of the service but recruiting the systems administrator. That is the frontier of
espionage and the kind of thing that a spy novelist should try to get his mind around.
David Ignatius, columnist and associate editor at The Washington Post
Ignatius
Not everyone should be a teacher. Its too important. The most important thing
I won, no question, was the right to hire. The most important thing I lost was the
right to fire.
Joel Klein, CEO of education-tech company Amplify and former
chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
Klein
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Karam Sethi
Gawande
Steve Johnson
Blow
Patrice Gilbert
Redeployment
Theres a tradition in war literature that the veteran experiences the truth of war
and is coming back and testifying to it. I didnt want to have one veteran coming
back and testifying to the truth of the Iraq War narrative. I wanted twelve, and
twelve that didnt match up with each other.
Phil Klay, National Book Awardwinner
Klay
Peter Lindbergh
Browder
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Demonstrators
react to the Michael
Brown shooting in
Ferguson, Missouri,
August 15, 2014.
I HAVE A SOLUTION
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE POLICE AND
YOUNG PEOPLE OF COLOR IN FERGUSON.
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LEADING VOICES
AHLBRAND: Yes. I buy that because the cities that we are talking
about are predominantly African-American communities.
MARTIN: Do you think that theres an issue between white cops
and black kidsthat white cops somehow dont see these kids as
they are?
AHLBRAND: I believe it does happen out there. But on the whole,
I would say no.
KINNIE: Yeah, to be honest. Its when race and power and ego
collide. I was speaking to middle-schoolers this past week, just
getting to hear about their reactions and their encounters with
police. These are 12-year-old kids Im listening to, speaking about
times they are getting stopped. They walk down the street getting
stopped; they go into a store and get racially profiled.
ISOM: There are a lot of great police officers out there doing very
good work. But no doubt there has been this tension between the
police and young men of color for many years, and it is primarily
MARTIN: On a day-to-day basis these officers feel afraid and may
centered around car stops and pedestrian stops. Often, police
be behaving this way because they feel afraid. Do you believe that?
are called in to try to control behavior in neighborhoods that are
challenged. One of the primary ways in which officers do that is
KINNIE: We all feel unsafe in this world. How can we come together
vehicle stops and pedestrian stops. So, are we overusing that tactic
to make the community safer? How can I make sure that your job
to try to control behavior, and
goes as easy as possible? How
what are those interactions like
can you make sure that I get
when we have them? Thats
to school safely without getting
The youth are ready; they want to
the core issue.
stopped?
ISOM: There is a fear on both
its race?
AHLBRAND: Its a great point. In the city of St. Louis, one of the
most prevalent calls that an officer would get is suspicious person
selling drugs on the corner. Every day. Kids who are standing on
the corner wont believe that we got a call because the little lady
who lives across the street is tired of the drug-dealing going on.
They think we are just harassing them. Thats the dialogue that we
need to get the community together on.
ISOM: The other thing is that, when you look at the adult-teenager
relationship, theres always this issue of we are not equal. That
might be even worse when you are talking about cops dealing with
young men of color. So thats an issue that we have to deal with as
well. Because if you encounter someone on the street and you dont
see him as equal, you see him as
KINNIE: We have to lay this out on the table that this issue is deeply
rooted in racism.
( applause )
This whole ordeal is classism, is poverty. Its a power structure; its
a power problem. We have to get this idea out of our heads that,
Oh, its just a few bad apples. Well, those few bad apples represent
your whole department. So if those few bad apples are making
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the fact that there were young people out there getting gassed. We
have to understand that the youth feel that the police are not there
to serve and protect them. Police understand, just by putting on a
badge, automatically their job is going to be dangerous. We have to
understand, as a community, that we have a right to protest. We have
the right to get our voices heard. What we dont have a right to is the
way we are treated by police and how we were treated in Ferguson.
Kinnie
your department look bad, its showing that you are using racist
practices. Thats your whole department. We are just not going to
say, a few bad apples, because there is a cultural disconnect. We
have to lay that on the table.
MARTIN: I must say, all of these racist e-mails in the Ferguson
department, racist jokes about the president and the first lady
what is that?
AHLBRAND: Its totally unacceptable behavior. But if you go into
any business, you are going to see the same thing. Cops arent that
much different than everybody else, and you are going to have that.
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THE 3-BILLION-STRONG
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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner wants to create economic
opportunity for every employable person in the world.
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Transforming the
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DREAM
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Why the success of all American kids is vital.
Harvard Professor Robert Putnam spoke with Institute CEO
Walter Isaacson in March at an Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn
Book Series event about his new book, Our Kids: The American
Dream in Crisis, which explores the growing inequality gap.
out there, weve got the best lawyer, and
weve found the right rehab. So it will
probably work out. Airbags. If exactly
the same thing had happened to a black
kid on the south side of Chicagono
airbags. They have no one coaching
them. When you think poor kid, think
isolated kid.
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ments, these children need nutritious foods. And they arent getting them.
Across Africa, agricultural investments and food production are rising,
which is good news. But the increased availability of food on the continent
has not translated into improved nutrition and health. Indeed, the number of African children who suffer from physical and mental stunting, an
end-stage irreversible effect of chronic malnutrition, has increased to 58.6
million in 2012 from 50.8 million in 2000. And the regions spearheading
the jump in agricultural production often see the highest rates of stunting.
FANRPAN
Two New Voices Fellows found that the greatest benefit of their
fellowship wasnt just media training to increase visibility for their
programs in Africait was finding each other and working to
end malnutrition. BY RAMADHANI ABDALLAH NOOR, M.D.
Many of the undernourished young patients at Muhimbili, like their
brethren across Africa, will suffer physical and mental limitations for the
rest of their lives, robbing the continent of its most precious resource, human capital, for decades to come.
When I joined the Institutes New Voices Fellowship, the disconnect between the medical advances in child care and continued poor nutrition
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programs are complementary and should work together. But they dont.
To address this problem, Sibanda and I have teamed up on two new
initiatives. The first is the Agriculture Nutrition Health joint forum, coordinated and led by the Africa Academy of Public Health in collaboration with Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania and the Harvard
T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the United States. Through this
forum, we have convened two meetings attended by representatives from
the Tanzanian ministries of health and agriculture as well as the prime
ministers office, delegates from various NGOs and development partners,
and academic and research institutions working in agriculture, nutrition,
and health. These meetings marked the first time in Tanzania that such a
diverse group met to discuss integrating the official response to malnutrition through agricultural development.
In our latest meeting, in January in Dar Es Salaam, we linked up with
ATONU, a regional initiative led by Sibandas organization that aims
to foster national and regional capacities to evaluate nutrition-sensitive
agriculture programs and advise governments on how to use agricultural-
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Kandahar Treasure
ASPEN IMPACT
GIVING KANDAHAR
WOMEN A VOICE
A partnership between the Aspen Global Health and Development
program and an artisan enterprise gives women new respect, new
freedomand new markets so they can support their families.
BY RANGINA HAMIDI
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an all womens social enterprise, is Sikas answer for help in taking care
of her children, who now have an opportunity to attend school instead of
begging on the streets. The group, which employs 21 full-time women and
nine men, provides work to more than 400 women, giving them a way to
sell their khamak, finely detailed needlework.
Kandahar Treasure is a pioneering initiative, as it is both self-sustaining
and led by and owned by women in the provincenot a popular trend in
Afghan society. The women take pride in knowing that they have proved a
model of success in the midst of 12 years of war and destruction.
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Kandahar Treasure is a pioneering initiative, as it is both selfsustaining and led by and owned by women in the province
not a popular trend in Afghan society.
Were it not for the support of its partners and friends in the United
States, Kandahar Treasure would remain invisible. One of those important
partners is the Alliance for Artisan Enterprise, part of the Institutes Global
Health & Development program. The Alliances mission is to support the
power and potential of the artisan sector to create jobs, increase incomes,
enhance cultural heritage, and promote development that respects the
uniqueness of people and place.
The transportation to and from work that Kandahar Treasure now provides Sika is made possible by a small loan given through the Alliances
partnership with Kiva, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to alleviate poverty. The partnership between Kiva and the Alliance was created to
provide financial assistance to artisans, who often have difficulty accessing
resources. Because Sika is no longer verbally abused on her commute, her
performance at workand that of her 20 colleaguesis now enhanced.
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The corporate partners have joined the Alliance for a reason: some to
help the world, some to look good to their existing consumers, some to
attract new customers. But the artisans involved in making products that
they market directly, or whose products are marketed through corporations, have made it their mission to lift themselves and their families out of
the indignities and even atrocities they face daily in Afghanistans remote
villages. These artisans need a platform to raise their voice to policymakers, corporations, and financial institutions about their needs and desires.
Kandahar Treasure is proud to partner with the Alliance in giving voice
to the hundreds of women in Kandahar who dream of a better future for
their children.
Rangina Hamidi is the founder of Kandahar Treasure, a partner of the Institutes
Alliance for Artisan Enterprise.
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A new working group to help good teachers
train other teachers is filling a gapproviding practical
steps to extend proven skills from one teacher to many.
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throughs comes from developing teachers at scaleand this cannot happen without proven, effective teachers assuming greater responsibility for
mentoring and developing their peers.
On the day the report was released, both Joel Klein, ed-reform advocate and former New York City schools chancellor, and Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, tweeted about it, demonstrating the Institutes ability to transcend traditional politics. And the
tool kit is influencing the field in significant ways. The Kentucky Department of Education, in partnership with
Hope Street Group, sent a tool-kit link to
every teacher in the state to inspire new
ideas about teacher leadership. According
to Robin Hebert, of the Kentucky Department of Education, the tool kit provides
concrete, step-by-step guidance and direction for how to begin, assess, measure, and
build a strong model of teacher leadership
at the local level.
For Denver Superintendent Tom Boasberg, making the role of principal more
manageable is a major motivation for investing in teacher leadership: In any other
knowledge-based profession, its an absolute
given that you wont see people trying to
coach or supervise more than six or eight
people, Boasberg says. Yet in schools, we
ask school leaders to coach and supervise 30,
40, 50 people. So Denver created a Team
Lead role, where accomplished teachers are
given reduced teaching loads to make time
for coaching and supervising other teachers.
For teaching to assume its rightful place alongside medicine, law, engineering, and other esteemed professions, teachers themselves need to
lead. Through its partnership with Leading Educators and the publication
of Leading From the Front of the Classroom, the Program is turning this idea
into action.
Ross Wiener is the executive director of the Education and Society Program at the
Aspen Institute.
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SEIZING
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Outside the Middle East, news stories
point out instability, violence, and
extremism. Inside the Middle East, business
people brim with ideas, initiative, energy,
and success. The Institutes Middle East
Programs recently brought together
ten of the regions highest-impact tech
entrepeneurs for a week of immersive
mentorshipan experience its participants
describe as worldview-changing and
business-changing.
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EAST PROGRAMS HAS ACCEPTED;
ITS WHAT BOUAZIZI STOOD FOR.
HE PROVIDED FOR HIS FAMILY
AND TOOK PAINS TO DISTRIBUTE
SURPLUS TO THOSE LESS
FORTUNATE THAN HIMSELF.
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I say, not so much to Jenks as the empty bar behind him. Were
at a table in the corner, with a view of the entrance.
Jenks shrugs and makes a face. Hard to tell what it means.
Theres so much scar tissue and wrinkled skin, I never know if
hes happy or sad or pissed or what. Hes got no hair and no
ears either, so even though its been three years after he got hit,
I still feel like his head is something I shouldnt look at. But you
look a man in the eye when you talk to him, so for Jenks I force
my eyes in line with his.
I dont tell war stories, he says, and takes a sip of his glass
of water.
Excerpt from Phil Klays Redeployment
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As a child, I was vulnerable, explains Maura Zapata, a 26-yearold attorney, as she recounts her formative years in Ciudad Sandino,
Nicaragua. My family had scarce resources, my father was a
farmer, and my mother sold goods door to door. I was the youngest
of six. It was school that helped me identify my leadership potential
and develop the critical thinking that led me to my profession.
After graduating from law school in Managua, Nicaragua,
Zapata wanted to repay her school and community for the
extraordinary opportunities she had received. Her hope was to
give back by mentoring young girls and empowering them to take
control of their futures. While she found a steady supply of worthy
NGOs and causes around her, she struggled to find an opportunity
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that would allow her to work directly with young girls. When she
learned about the Soy Una Nia y Construyo mi Futuro (I Am
a Girl, I Build My Future) program, she knew she had found the
perfect opportunity to become a mentor.
The program was conceived by the 11 women who together
comprise the female contingent of the ninth class of Central
America Leadership Initiative Fellows. Like Zapata, the other
Fellows recognized the combination of luck and circumstances
that allowed them to advance in life, and they felt a responsibility
to help the next generation. As CALI Fellow Denise Vargas, the
commercial manager for Ultramotor and Motomundo, the leading
motorcycle-distribution companies in Honduras, puts it, Deeply
The program started after the CALI Fellows read Simone de Beauvoir.
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The original idea for the specific regional program came from a discussion
about the mixed messages our children, and particularly girls, receive through media,
merchandise, and role models.
Karla Blanco, the corporate-affairs director for Intel in Costa
Rica, stopped and read one sentence aloud: For the individuals who
seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of
genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity
in their personal existences, and no woman has ever believed herself
authorized to do this. Though the CALI Fellows didnt realize it
at the time, this moment would mark the beginning of a major
regional initiative on women and girls. As proven leaders selected
to be part of this selective fellowship program, says Maria Isabel
Mayorga, the executive director of Fundacin Geden, which works
to improve civic engagement in Guatemala City, I had a moment
where I looked around the room and realized I was among the most
privileged in my country. My CALI classmates and I share a sense of
responsibility for supporting the next generation.
The 11 women in the class left the seminar resolved to do more
for women and girls in their countries. A spirited WhatsApp group
text discussion just a few weeks later helped give shape to what the
women wanted to do. The original idea for the specific regional
program, Denise Vargas says, came from a discussion about the
mixed messages our children, and particularly girls, receive through
media, merchandise, and role models.
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formalityjust passion, respect, and love. I believe this dynamic is the best evidence of
what true fellowship means.
group now knew that the biggest hurdle to scaling their project
throughout the region would be capacity. To build that, they
needed support and connections. They quickly found both in
the CALI network of Fellows. Glasswing International, founded
by CALI Fellow Diego de Sola, offered them access to its robust
network of volunteers and infrastructure in Guatemala, El
Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Meanwhile, in Costa Rica,
the education NGO Fe y Alegra (Faith and Happiness) and
the CEPIA Association, both founded by CALI Fellow Laetitia
Deweer, offered their local networks as well.
Meanwhile, the RadiCALI women had been hard at
work selecting mentorseach carefully chosen for their blend
of life experience and professional achievement. In February,
the Population Council invited all I Am a Girl, I Build My
Future mentors to Guatemala for training in nine methodologies
it had developed in areas like self-esteem, resource management,
financial literacy, sexual and reproductive health, and identifying
and preventing violencetopics girls are seldom educated in.
With eager mentors like Maura newly graduated from training
sessions, the Girls Clubs officially launched in April in each of the
six countries. Mentors lead weekly meetings in a safe space. The
girls who attend are between the ages of eight and 15. Maura has
already mentored 50 girls who grew up in the same conditions she
did and are, as she was at that age, vulnerable.
The RadiCALI women have formed the sort of bond we
regularly see in classes of AGLN Fellows around the world.
They regularly test each others views about their roles as
mothers, partners, leaders, and friends. From an initial spark of
collaboration among classmates to a major regional program, I Am
A Girl, I Build My Future is now poised to make a difference in
the futures of many vulnerable girls throughout Central America.
It has been wonderful to witness each of the womens leadership
emerge when most needed, Maria Isabel Mayorga, an NGO
leader from Guatemala, explains, and then take a backseat when
not. Our project has taken shape without organizational structure
andwithout formalityjust through passion, respect, and love. I
believe this dynamic is the best evidence of what true fellowship
means and its power to change the world through a sharedvision
and selflessness.
Caitlin Colegrove is network and communications manager for the Aspen
Global Leadership Network.
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REBUILDING LIVES,
REDUCING COSTS
A new model for jobs vs. jail
has investors betting prison
reform will work. ImpactAlphas
David Bank and Jessica
Pothering say why its a
good bet.
FOOD SECURITY
are a small part of a greater moral good that should remain the
fundamental principle of food security. What does this principle
look like in practice?
Government is first and foremost a social contract that outlines
responsibilities for order and well-being between those who rule
and those who are ruled. I therefore believe that governments have
a responsibility to feed those who cannot feed themselves. But we
must better understand what tools governments can use to achieve
that objective.
First, property is everywhere in this discussion, and governments
have the power to define the legal architecture of property rights.
Food is about agriculture; agriculture is about land and water; and
land and water are about propertywho owns it, who has access to
it, and who cultivates it. As the economist Hernando De Soto has
pointed out brilliantly, if we can do a better job of making property
rights accessible to all, we can also help the poor to use those rights
to obtain credit, make investments, and increase their agricultural
output. Property rights give poor people a stronger voice and a
greater stake in their economies. We cannot expect to increase the
agricultural output of the worlds arable land if the smallholder
farmers responsible for its cultivation are not invested in its future.
Second, as the providers of social services, governments are
in a unique position to structure how issues such as nutrition,
agriculture, and infrastructure intersect with welfare and social
services. One of the resounding lessons from the work of the Food
Security Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute is that an integrated
approach for reducing food insecurity has a greater impact than
separate strategies for each sector. Ethiopia has demonstrated
the wisdom of such an integrated strategy in its Agricultural
Transformation Agency, a forward-thinking agency designed to
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As the guardians of
social order and justice,
governments have
a compelling moral
responsibility to lead the
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is the co-chair of the Aspen Institute Food
Security Strategy Group with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former Secretary
of Agriculture Dan Glickman, and the philanthropists Tony Elumelu and Javier Solana.
FOOD SECURITY:
WHO LEADS?
The short answer: everyone. Governments can set
important agendas. But the private sector holds
the keys to getting more people better food.
The world is facing a food security
challenge of unprecedented scale in the
21st century. The numbers are familiar,
and they are stark: food production,
according to the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations,
must increase by at least 60 percent in the
next 35 years to feed Earths growing and
hungry population. And food production
must meet that rising demand while
contending with other crises like climate
change, migration, conflict, and disease,
which will all affect our ability to grow
more food.
More important, food production must meet that demand
sustainably and equitably, with respect for the environment and
the smallholder farmers that make up the backbone of global
agriculture. This is no easy task.
Like many of the greatest challenges facing world leaders today,
achieving food securitydefined as when all people at all times have
access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to stay healthy and active
over the long term requires tight coordination and progress across
all sectors. Governments, NGOs, international organizations, and
corporations all have a role to play. But who will lead? And where
can we focus our resources to make the greatest impact?
Reflecting on our long and shared experience tackling these
issues in government, informed by the storied history of farming
in our home states and across America, and fueled by the powerful
data and evidence on global agriculture markets and innovation, we
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Every day at noon, the Institutes Journal of Ideas posts the FIVE BEST IDEAS OF
THE DAY, taken from all over the web. Here are 20 provocative, new ideas, many of them
by Institute contributors, that appeared recently. Youll find the links at www.aspen.us.
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ISIS is bringing
recruits onto the
battlefield faster than
we can kill them.
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Antonio Regalado
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One NGO is
crowdfunding the
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For developmentally
disabled kids, the
benefits of organized
sports are huge.
Darrin Steele in Quartz
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How do we convince
Americans that justice
isnt for sale when in
39 states, it is?
Sue Bell Cobb in Politico
We know how to
reduce earthquake
deaths. So why arent
we doing it?
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BRINGING
HEALTH CARE
TO TRIBES THAT NEED IT
Native youth are bringing national attention to an
innovative program pioneered by leaders from
Alaska Tribal Nations to bring oral health care to communities
that have had no access to itand succeeding in the face
of strong opposition by dental trade associations.
Littlebear Sanchez, 22, a foster youth from the Mescalero Apache
Nation, suffered from a broken and infected tooth for many
months, unable to get a dentist appointment in New Mexico. As
the pain became unbearable, Littlebear recalls, I even tried
pulling the tooth out myself. He has shared his story with White
House staff, members of the presidents Cabinet, and media outlets to raise awareness of the importance of access to safe health
care and to advocate for policy change.
Alayna Eagle Shield, 24, from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation,
testified during a North Dakota state legislative hearing in October
2014 about the use of dental therapy, and she wrote an op-ed sharing her stories of long, early morning trips across a winter prairie
for the chance to see a dentist. According to Alayna, only a lucky
few can be seen each day, so many of our youth grow up with
missing teeth. As an aspiring medical student, Alayna is determined to ensure that Indian tribes and rural communities can end
the status quo and bring back good health.
As an organization committed to youth leadership and development, the Center for Native American Youth creates opportunities
that bolster youth initiatives and lift up their voices. CNAY was
founded in 2011 as a policy program at the Institute by former
US Senator Byron Dorgan with $1 million from excess campaign
funds. The organization is dedicated to improving the health, safety, and overall well-being of Native American youth through communication, policy development, and advocacy on a national level.
Alayna and Littlebear are examples of that advocacy.
Centuries of failed policies and chronic underfunding of programs intended to serve Native Americans have led to intolerable
disparities in health, socioeconomic status, housing, education, and
other social determinants of health, seriously affecting the ability
of Native American youth to reach their full potential.
That includes oral health. For Native American youth, lack of
access to oral health care persists as a very real and sometimes
deadly cause of poor health outcomes, pain, and grief: 72 percent
of Native youth nationwide currently suffer from untreated tooth
decaydouble the rate of the general population. For children
ages two to four, the rate is five times the US average. Nearly 50
percent of Native youth in the United States live in federally designated dental-shortage areas. All too often, medical help is hours
away.
The Indian Health Service, an agency within the Department
of Health and Human Services whose mission is to carry out the
federal governments responsibility to provide health care to Native Americans, remains chronically underfunded, with less fund-
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ing for health care services per capita than veterans and prisoners,
not to mention Medicaid and Medicare patients. One of the results of historic underfunding and potential future budget cuts is a
dentist vacancy rate hovering around 30 percent.
Ten years ago, Alaska Native tribes and leaders designed a solution to the high rates of tooth decay in their children. They had
tried what many tribal communities had tried beforeto lure dentists to remote areas with lucrative employment packages and loanpayback models. Unfortunately, these efforts failed. So the Alaska
Native Tribal Health Consortium, a not-for-profit health organization led by Alaska Native leaders, looked outside the Indian health
system for innovative solutions to the growing rates of tooth decay
in Alaska Native villages.
Ultimately, ANTHC brought innovative oral health care to their
communities through dental therapists, mid-level providers who
supply evidence-based care in more than 50 countriesbut, until
recently, not in the United States. Sometimes compared with nurse
practitioners and physicians assistants, dental therapists serve as
an addition, not a replacement, to a dentist-led team. Although
supervised by a dentist, dental therapists do not have to be in the
same location, allowing them to reach more people in need. Dental therapists are thoroughly trained in pediatric care, which makes
up 60 percent of their work, and acquire cutting-edge skills, including motivational interviewing, to better interact with families
and children.
This trailblazing program, the first of its kind in the United
States, increased access for 45,000 Alaska Natives in ten years. Instead of seeing a dentist every couple of yearsif at allAlaska
Natives now have access to continuous care from dental therapists
who use airplanes, boats, and snowmobiles to reach them. For the
first time in more than a century, Alaskas Native communities are
seeing cavity-free children. Unlike the dentists who needed to be
attracted to rural areas, the majority of dental therapists grow up
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in the communities they serve, and thus understand residents challenges, norms, and culture. With a strong education and service to
community, dental therapists become important local leaders.
Yet restoring the oral health of Alaska Natives has reopened
longstanding policy issues and complex relationships among
tribes, states, and the federal government. Organized dentistry
disapproved of ANTHCs solution. That opposition includes the
American Dental Association, which has long opposed mid-level
dental providers and which unsuccessfully sued the Alaska Native
tribes as well as the original class of individual dental therapists.
What Ive learned from this program and working with these
incredible providers is sometimes you have to do something because its hard. If you dont, nobody else will, says Valerie Davidson, a Yupik Native and a former senior director of legal and
intergovernmental affairs at ANTHC who successfully defended
Alaska Tribal Nations in allowing the program to continue. This
is about real kids who need real dental care. In one generation,
weve made change.
Despite opposition, the program has gained national attention,
and not just in Tribal Nations. Many communities, especially in
rural America, suffer from a lack of access to dental providers: 77
percent of all US counties include designated dental care shortage areas. Simply not enough dentists serve rural and low-income
areas. Thats why Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and states are
looking to dental therapy for needed change.
Currently, two states have passed legislation authorizing the use
of dental-therapy providers, and nearly 26 states are exploring use
of dental therapists. But the issue remains contentious, and the
ADA and its state affiliates continue to flex their lobbying power in
opposing the expansion of dental therapy.
Native youth play a fundamental role in pushing past opposition and in designing a healthy future for their communities. Youth
change the conversation; their stories hold us accountable. Their
stories matter. Native youth need and deserve quality medical
carenot losing family members from abscessed teeth, traveling
long hours for a chance to obtain treatment, or trying to pull their
own teeth to end pain. Tribal Nations were first in developing dental therapy in the United States. Theyand their youthare leading the way for all communities.
Erin Bailey is the executive director of the Institutes Center for Native
American Youth.
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essays, conversations,
and opinions from the
leaders of the Institute
community. The goal
of the Journal, an
online publication, is
to highlight important
ideas, flesh out
innovative solutions
to pressing issues, and
to tell stories about good
policy that will change
lives. Here are just a
few of the voices that
appeared in the Journal
in recent months.
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ON AMERICA, TORTURE
REVELATIONS AND OUR FOREIGN POLICY:
A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID IGNATIUS
Itll be some time before CIA officers will undertake activities that
they believe are not going to have long-term public support. And I
think thats one of the delicate issues. The CIA is like the military.
When people receive an order from their commander to go do
something, if the response is let me talk to my lawyer, thats not
a good situation. I think the next president will have to worry as
President Obama realized he had to worry about the morale. In
this world, you need a quality intelligence service.
REDUCING INEQUALITY:
SIX NEXT MOVES FOR
BUSINESS
By Maureen Conway and
Judy Samuelson
Inequality brings government
regulation and public policy
fixes to mind. But lets face it
decisions about wages, benefits,
work schedules, and skills
reside largely in the business
sector, which holds the key to
expansion of the middle class.
At the upper end of the scale
are issues including runaway
executive compensation, a
significant contributor to the
growth in wage inequality.
What else then should
be in the plans of chief
executives who have read the
same tea leaves about the cost
to the commons of growing
wage inequality? What are
some solutions that lie within
business itself ?
A GAME PLAN TO
BREAK THE GRIDLOCK
By Jim Nussle and Peter Orszag
A new Congress has been
sworn in and our government
is divided. A goal that both
parties should share is to do a
much better job of ensuring
that scarce taxpayer dollars
are invested in programs
that work. That is why we
have joined with current and
former government leaders
and advisors from across the
political spectrum to call on our
government to play Moneyball.
By using data, evidence,
and evaluation, we can improve
government performance
in the same way that Billy
Beane famously revolutionized
baseball. By playing Moneyball,
government can provide better
services to millions more
Americans while saving billions
of dollars.
TAKING A
NATION TO WAR
By Mickey Edwards
Many can legitimately point
to potential hardships here if
ISIL succeeds and much of
the worlds oil supply is held
hostage because America did
too little to stop the advance
of terror. Some will argue that
by supporting uprisings against
dictators who were maintaining
Middle East stability, the
United States bears some
responsibility for the unraveling
that has followed. None of
these are inconsequential
arguments. But a decision
today to empower President
Obama to bring our multiple
resources to bear against ISIL
need not preclude revisiting
the issue in three years, or even
sooner if Congress chooses.
For now the best answer
is to demand that those most
threatened take the lead in
protecting themselvestheir
countries and their lives
with the United States as a
supporting ally. Thats the
position I would advocate if
I were still in Congress today.
Whether or not that is the view
that prevails, what matters is
that the decision will be made
by the peoples representatives,
just as the Constitution
requires.
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REDUCING COSTS BY
REBUILDING LIVES
Social impact bonds offer a new kind of philanthropic
investmentinitial risk for long-term returns if public-service
programs save money. The Institutes Ascend program, in
partnership with the Program on Philanthropy and Social
Innovation, is tracking a number of innovative investments,
with an especially close eye on one that helps ex-offenders in
New York find jobs faster and stay out of prison.
The snow was blowing, and it was in the 20s on Wall Street the day
after New Years, but dozens of mostly young, mostly black, and
mostly unemployed men showed up for job training and placements
on the first working day of the year.
They were eager to enroll at the nonprofit Center for
Employment Opportunities, better known as CEO, which operates
out of the 18th floor of a building in the heart of New York Citys
financial district. The men, all recently released from prison, were
making an investment in their own futures. Other, more familiar,
fixtures on Wall Streetincluding former Treasury Secretary Larry
Summersare making an investment in the young men as well.
The ex-offenders lining up for employment help were among the
first of 2,000 CEO clients in New York City and Rochester, whose
job-training costs are covered under a pay-for-success contract
financed by private investors. Bank of America Merrill Lynch
offered the investment to its private banking clients, and between
Thanksgiving and New Years Eve last year, more than 40 high-networth investors committed $13.5 million.
If enough of the formerly incarcerated men stay out of prison,
the investors stand to recoup their principal, plus a return that
can range between 5 and 12.5 percent. If CEOs program fails
to significantly reduce recidivism, with at least an 8 percent
reduction in jail and prison days, investors will lose up to 90
percent of their money.
For investors, pay-for-success contracts, colloquially known as
social impact bonds, might more accurately be called repaid-
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The pay-for-success
model has the potential
to scale up much
more dramatically than
either government
spending or traditional
charity.
will cover the repayment for service delivery taking place in the first
two years, under a pilot program to test these kinds of financing
arrangements.) And on top of those savings, New York will also
benefit from the improved prospects of the target population and
the community at large.
Investors will start to receive repayments if the project reduces
the number of nights the clients in CEOs target group spend
back in prison by at least 36.8 bed-days per person, or 8 percent,
compared with a similar group that does not receive CEOs services.
If performance exceeds those thresholds, investors can earn up
to 12.5 percent after five and a half years. Once the minimum
is met, investors get 100 percent of the states savings until their
capital is repaid, then split additional savings 50-50 up to the cap.
If reductions are even more dramatic, the state keeps the additional
savings. Most observers expect returns in the mid-single digits.
The program must also show a 5 percent increase in employment
perhaps the key determinant in staying out of prison. In New York
state, an estimated 44 percent of formerly incarcerated individuals
on parole who are unemployed return to prison within two years.
For those with part-time unemployment, its 29 percent, and for
those with full-time employment, its 23 percent.
The contract is driving increased cooperation between the New
York Department of Corrections and CEO. The data show that
CEO is particularly effective with high-risk clients that it can reach
as soon as possible after release. In the new program, the participant
meets jointly with a parole officer and a CEO outreach worker in
the very first weeks after release. That match candidate meeting
is intended to convey that the candidate has been selected for a
program specially tailored to his needs.
More broadly, the shared incentives mean state officials are eager
to see the program work. CEO and state officials zip spreadsheets
back and forth monthly, or even weekly, tracking enrollment rates to
assess if the project is attracting the desired participation.
CEO is confident it can replicate the results from its earlier randomassignment evaluations. Theres a risk we wont, so we could suffer,
says Marta Nelson, who previously headed CEOs New York City
office. If we dont succeed, its going to be on the front page.
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FACES:
Stephen Colbert
Reed Hastings,
Bill Bynum
WHO: Hundreds of friends of the Institute celebrated the Institutes annual awards tradition. WHAT: The 31st Annual Awards
Dinner. WHERE: Guests enjoyed a reception and dinner at the historic Plaza Hotel in New York City. WHEN: November 13, 2014.
WHY: Netflix CEO and Henry Crown Fellow Reed Hastings and Roll Global co-owner Lynda Resnick were feted in an evening
that included an introduction of Resnick by comedian Stephen Colbert and a discussion by Hastings of net neutrality and
bringing House of Cards to the small screen.
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Patrick McMullan
double c ranch
Double C Ranch is in a stunning setting on 35
acres. Five bedrooms and four and a half
baths with an open layout, a large living area
including dining, kitchen, living room with 35
ceilings, a custom bar and large windows to view
the entire ranch. Access to miles of hiking and
riding trails, while only minutes to restaurants
and shopping. Extensive water rights for
irrigating pastures and growing hay. The property
includes a quarter mile of private river frontage
to the Roaring Fork River. It has a great indoor/
outdoor entertaining space with a vintage country
dcor.
Offered for $5,495,000
cHris Flynn
970.618.5267
chrisflynn@aspenbrokers.com
a. scOtt DaviDsOn
970.948.4800
scott@zgaspen.com
tOny Dilucia
970.379.4275
tony@tonydaspen.com
970.544.5800
THE ASPEN IDEA
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FACES:
Leelee Harriman,
Bill Harriman,
Judy Lovins
Mercedes T. Bass,
Alan Fletcher,
Ann Hudson
WHO: The Society of Fellows is an intimate community of contributors to the Institute. WHAT: The annual Aspen Holiday Party
gives friends of the Institute an opportunity to celebrate the season and the years accomplishments. WHERE: The DoerrHosier Center in its full holiday regalia. WHEN: December 29, 2014. WHY: A live band provided entertainment for the evening,
which included a conversation with Mike and Jackie Bezos about the work of the Bezos Family Foundation.
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Peggy Wilkie
Jeff Bezos
5.
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Red Mtn. location with Independence to Mt. Sopris views, privacy $8.9M
Modern family home, sprawling lawn, river, views, fun $4.2M
Smokin hot deal, West Aspen location, expansion possibilities $2.1M
The best ski-in/ski-out on Cascade, sun, views, A/C, great floor plan $8.5M
MAUREENSTAPLETON
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FACES:
TISCH AWARDS
Tracey Kemble, Michel Martin, Charles Sheffield
Erin Baiano
Laurie M. Tisch
WHO: Legendary civil rights leader and US Representative John Lewis received the 2015 Preston Robert Tisch Award for Civic
Leadership. WHAT: NPRs Michel Martin led an inspiring conversation with Lewis before a dinner for special guests. WHEN:
December 8, 2014. WHERE: Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute Alliance in New York City. WHY: The annual Tisch
Award was created in 2009 by Bob Tischs children to honor their fathers legacy of public service and philanthropy.
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Jonathan Feinberg
970.379.3405
THE ASPEN
IDEA
SUMMER 2015
oxbow@rof.net
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FACES:
SPRING RECEPTION
Laysha Ward,
Viviane Warren
Carol Adelman,
Bonnie McCloskey,
Diane Morris
Alma Gildenhorn,
Marty Sherwin,
Michael Eisner
Walter Isaacson,
Ambassador Ritva Koukku-Ronde,
Bob Steel
Patrice Gilbert
WHO: Institute Trustees and special guests gathered in Washington, DC. WHAT: The event concluded the 2015 Society of
Fellows Day in Washington, where attendees learned about new Institute happenings, including the Endangered American
Dream initiative. The reception celebrated the official launch of the Latinos and Society Program. WHEN: April 9, 2015. WHERE:
The Finnish Embassy, a Scandinavian-designed oasis in the nations capital. WHY: The reception offered new and longtime
members of the Institute a chance to catch up and enjoy each others company.
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The Walton Family Foundation is working to improve K-12 outcomes for all students,
especially those of limited means, by ensuring access to high-quality educational choices
that prepare them for a lifetime of opportunity.
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FACES:
2015 WINTER
SOCRATES PROGRAM
Peter Hirshberg,
James Waldron,
KC Waldron
Nayyera Haq
Eric Liu
Peter Orszag
Timothy Kim
WHO: The next generation of leaders from across industries were led in a weekend of conversation by Socrates moderators
Eric Liu, director of the Aspen Program on Citizenship and American Identity; Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the
New America Foundation; and Peter Orszag, vice chairman of global banking for Citigroup. WHAT: The 2015 Socrates Winter
Seminars. WHEN: February 1316, 2015. WHERE: Roundtable conversations took place on the Aspen Meadows campus, and for
a bit of diversion, participants skied up and down the slopes of Aspen. WHY: The Socrates Program provides a forum for young
emerging leaders to convene and explore contemporary issues through expert-moderated dialogue. Participants were also
invited to ski, practice yoga, and make new connections.
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Leigh Vogel
Oscar Bedolla
legacy
B U T T E R M I L K W E S T E S TAT E
estate
Doug Leibinger
SearchHomesInAspen.com
970.379.9045
Doug.Leibinger@sir.com
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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
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GLOBAL REACH
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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
sponsored by French President Francois Hollande. The
event provided an opportunity for more than 180 European
and African leaders to exchange views on the key theme
of technological innovation. Among the participants were
Alassane Ouattara, president of the Republic of Ivory Coast;
Laurent Fabius, minister of foreign affairs and international
development; Cristina Duarte, minister of finance of Cape
Verde; Jean-Michel Blanquer, CEO of ESSEC; Axelle Lemaire,
secretary of state for digital; and Olara Otunnu, president of
LBL Foundation for Children and an Aspen Institute Trustee.
A CONVERSATION ON SPAIN
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We make electricity.
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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
CONTACT
OUR INTERNATIONAL
PARTNERS
ASPEN INSTITUTE ESPAA
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
Todd Breyfogle
SEMINARS
SEMINARS HELP PARTICIPANTS EXPLORE THE TENSIONS AMONG THE VALUES THAT FORM OUR
CONCEPTION OF A GOOD SOCIETY, WITH THE AIM OF DEEPENING KNOWLEDGE, BROADENING
PERSPECTIVES, AND ENHANCING THE CAPACITY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS LEADERS FACE.
THE ASPEN EXECUTIVE SEMINAR ON LEADERSHIP,
VALUES, AND THE GOOD SOCIETY
The Aspen Executive Seminar challenges leaders in every
field to clarify the values by which they lead and to think
more critically and deeply about their impact on the world
in a moderated, text-based Socratic dialogue.
aspeninstitute.org/aspenseminar
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Dr.
Timothy
Crombleholme, director
of the Colorado Institute
for Maternal and Fetal
Health on the Anschutz
Medical Campus. Every
day he and his team dare
to imagine extradinary
innovations
that
will
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Dan Bayer
FACTS/PROGRAMS
aspeninstitute.org/wyeseminars
CUSTOM SEMINARS
Custom Seminars enable organizations and companies
to develop one-day or multiday seminars relevant to their
day-to-day operations.
aspeninstitute.org/customseminar
aspeninstitute.org/socratesseminars
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Aspen
PAT MARQUIS
970.925.4200 pat@aspen4sale.com
Real Estate Specialist
Master Certified Negotiation Expert
Certified International Property Specialist
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
LEADERSHIP
PAHARA-ASPEN
EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP
Entrepreneurial leaders
for public education
pahara.org
aspeninstitute.org/rodel
aspeninstitute.org/ali
aspeninstitute.org/catto
aspeninstitute.org/hif
aspeninstitute.org/ali
aspeninstitute.org/cali
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Micro-Documentaries
Advancing Science.
Sharing Knowledge.
At Mayo Clinic we constantly strive to set the standard for quality care for the
benefit of every patient. We pursue medical advancements and develop new
procedures so that each patient gets exactly the care they need. And we freely
share our knowledge for the benefit of everyone.
Visit us in the Murdock Lounge at the Doerr-Hosier Center.
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
Leigh Vogel
THE
SOCRATES
PROGRAM
SUMMER SEMINARS
JULY 1013, 2015
THE FUTURE OF WORK & SKILLS
IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Moderator: John Irons
Lasting Impressions
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PHILADELPHIA, PA
SENATE SOCRATES
OCTOBER
1618, 2015
For purple
INTERNATIONAL
SEMINARS
OCTOBER
2224, 2015
mountain
majesties
SINTRA, PORTUGAL
NOVEMBER
57, 2015
MEXICO
Teen Socrates
970.355.4561
Call melets talk!
Track the progress past participants are making with Action Pledges.
Watch our series of short video updates to learn about how theyre
moving the needle on changes in their communities.
Visit www.AspenActionForum.org.
Accenture
The Skoll Foundation
FACTS/PROGRAMS
UPCOMING
EVENTS
JOIN
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Yassine El Mansouri
PUBLIC
House of Cards
show-runner
Beau Willimon
aspenideas.org
aspensecurityforum.org
theaspenchallenge.org
ASPEN WORDS
Throughout the year, Aspen Words
encourages writers in their craft
and readers in their appreciation
of literature by hosting festivals,
readings, and other literary
exchanges.
aspenwords.org
ONGOING PROGRAMS
IN NEW YORK
The Institute hosts a variety of programs in New York City, from book
talks and benefits to roundtable
discussions, forums, and the Aspen
Leadership Series: Conversations with
Great Leaders in Memory of Preston
Robert Tisch.
aspeninstitute.org/events/newyorkevents
ONGOING PROGRAMS
IN WASHINGTON, DC
From September through June, the
Institutes DC headquarters hosts the
Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book
Series, featuring discussions with
major recent authors. Concurrently,
the Washington Ideas Roundtable
Series focuses on world affairs, arts,
and culture.
aspeninstitute.org/events
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
POLICY
Steve Johnson
US Secretary of Commerce
Penny Pritzker at the Institute
ascend.aspeninstitute.org
cnay.org
aspeninstitute.org/health
aspeninstitute.org/solutions
ASPEN INSTITUTE
FRANKLIN PROJECT
aspeninstitute.org/franklin-project
aspeninstitute.org/citizenship
aspeninstitute.org/ifs
COMMUNICATIONS AND
SOCIETY PROGRAM
aspeninstitute.org/justice
CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM
aspeninstitute.org/congressional
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
PROGRAM
aspeninstitute.org/ande
aspeninstitute.org/asg
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PROGRAM ON PHILANTHROPY
AND SOCIAL INNOVATION
aspeninstitute.org/psi
aspeninstitute.org/education
aspeninstitute.org/c&s
aspeninstitute.org/eop
aspeninstitute.org/apep
aspeninstitute.org/college-excellence
ASPEN NETWORK OF
DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS
ROUNDTABLE ON COMMUNITY
CHANGE
aspeninstitute.org/rcc
cHris Flynn
970.618.5267
chrisflynn@aspenbrokers.com
a. scOtt DaviDsOn
970.948.4800
scott@zgaspen.com
tOny Dilucia
970.379.4275
tony@tonydaspen.com
ryan ElstOn
970.379.3072
ryan@aspenlocal.com
970.544.5800
510 East Hyman avEnuE, suitE 21, aspEn
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POLICY PROGRAM
FELLOWSHIPS
Born from the myriad policy programs at the Aspen Institute, the Policy Leadership Programs
seek to empower exceptional individuals to lead with innovation in their chosen fields. These
individuals then become more effective change agents who caninfluence the institutions and
fields in which they work (or lead) to create better outcomes for society.
NEW VOICES FELLOWSHIP
Founded by the Institutes Global Health
and Development Program, the New
Voices Fellowship cultivates compelling
experts to speak on development
issues.
aspeninstitute.org/newvoices
aspeninstitute.org/ascend
aspeninstitute.org/firstmovers
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Views of Aspen Mountain, Tiehack, Hunter Creek. Custom nishes include palladium-leafed cabinetry, use of
semiprecious stone, luxe Italian furnishings, rich textures and Minnotti Cucina kitchen. The result is singular,
exemplary. Enjoy the peaceful locale at the base of Tiehack ski area, amongst the rolling green fairways of the world
famous Maroon Creek Club. Walk to the school campus or the Aspen Recreation Center. Includes six bedrooms,
luxe decor, Indoor/ Outdoor living and 10,241 square feet.
$13,950,000. Priced to sell.
For details see susanplummeraspen.com.
Susan Plummer
970.948.6786
susan@masonmorse.com
SusanPlummerAspen.com
Follow me: @SusanPlummerAspen
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
OUR SUPPORTERS
TrusteeJim RogersandMary Anne Rogerspledged $1
million to establish the James E. Rogers Energy Fellow
position as part of the Institutes Energy and Environment
Program. The gift also continues their support of the
Business and Society Program, in particular its efforts to
change the narrative in business and in classrooms about the
corporations purpose. Working with the executive director
and program staff, the James E. Rogers Energy Fellow will
serve as the lead position for research, development, and
delivery of the Energy and Environment Programs major
annual forums. Rogers says that, at the Institute, I observed
many conversations that led to important, nuanced insights
molding the opinions of the participants, many of whom
then worked to shape US policy. It is in these forums where
the Aspen Institutes belief that all knowledge starts with a
conversation comes true.
Laurie M. Tisch
TrusteeLaurie M. Tischand
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination
Fundpledged $1 million to establish
the Laurie M. Tisch Endowed
Scholarship Fund to support an array
of programs across the Institute,
including Project Play; Aspen Across
America; the Health, Medicine, and
Society Program; and the Franklin
Project. The Illumination Fund also
continued its generous support
of the Aspen Leadership Series:
Conversations with Great Leaders in
Memory of Preston Robert Tisch,
the Institutes signature New York
City speaker series.
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ILLUMINATING
THE INSTITUTE
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
Ricardo Salinas
TheRicardo Salinas Foundationhas pledged $1.5 million to provide core funding for
the Institutes Latinos and Society Program and also to establish the Ricardo Salinas
Foundation Scholarship Fund, which will help increase the number of Latinos and Latin
Americans able to attend the Institutes public events, policy roundtables, leadership
seminars, and other convenings. Ricardo Salinas joined
the Board of Trustees in 2014 and was recognized for his
exceptional gift during a special reception introducing the
Latinos and Society Program to trustees and other close
Institute friends held at the Finnish Embassy in Washington.
And theres more: Society of Fellows memberWoody
Hunt and the Hunt Family Foundationpledged a $600,000
challenge grant to the Latinos and Society Program in order
to inspire other donors to support the programs Annual
Policy Summit and its Awareness and Education Tours, which
will take policymakers, members of the media, and others to
visit some of the communities along Americas borders.
LEAVING
A LEGACY
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
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FACTS/PROGRAMS
Add some
horsepower.
Michael Brands
horsepower.
Opera singer Eric Owens entertains the crowd at the 2014 Summer Celebration.
CAROL DOPKIN
and Ol a Dutch
Warmblood Show Hunter
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CONNECT WITH US
ASPEN ACROSS AMERICA
Executive Director of National Programs
Eric L. Motley
202.736.2900
eric.motley@aspeninstitute.org
SOCRATES PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
Vice President, Director
Melissa Ingber
202.736.1077
melissa.ingber@aspeninstitute.org
HENRY CROWN
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Managing Director,
Henry Crown Fellowship Program
Tonya Hinch
202.736.3523
tonya.hinch@aspeninstitute.org
aspeninstitute.org/crown
aspeninstitute.org/community
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Vice President
Aspen Ideas Festival,
Director
Kitty Boone
970.544.7926
kitty.boone@aspeninstitute.org
aspenideas.org
POLICY PROGRAMS
Director of Administration,
Policy and Public Programs
Donna Horney
202.736.5835
donna.h@aspeninstitute.org
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HERITAGE SOCIETY
To learn more about planned giving
opportunities, please call
Susan Sherwin
202.736.1088
aspeninstitute.org/heritagesociety
MEDIA INQUIRIES
Director of Communications
and Public Affairs
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FOLLOW US
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MULTIMEDIA CHANNEL
Find videos of many of the
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PUBLICATIONS
To find Institute publications, some
of which are available for purchase or
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
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Classic
Aspens rich architectural history comes alive in this charming Victorian home, built in 1888 and located on a double lot in the hip and
historic West End. The restored two-story Victorian cottage includes three ensuite bedrooms, five fireplaces, spacious remodeled
kitchen with breakfast room, enclosed courtyard, private gardens with hot tub, and front and center views of Aspen Mountain. An
attached remodel guest wing features a one-bedroom apartment with living room, fireplace and a full bath. This house includes a
heated 1 1/2 car garage. Located across the street from the Yellow Brick Park, this charming piece of Aspen history is within walking
distance of the Aspen Institute, the Music Tent, the Gondola and Aspens lively downtown core. $5,175,000
970.920.7380
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