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The unflinching humanity that Martin Luther King, Jr. embodied is part of what makes his legacy so lasting. In addition to his preeminent civil rights work, he spoke out about worker protections, access to housing, and warmongering. Watch and listen as Aspen Ideas speakers, some who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., explain how he indelibly shaped the world.
It wasn't so long ago that journalists and news anchors were some of the most trusted figures in America. Traditional journalism faced challenges before the 2016 election when "fake news" appeared and online media began to supplant print and cable news. How will journalism adapt to a changing technological and political landscape? What does it mean to be an arbiter of trut...
People are connected more than ever before, yet record rates of loneliness, depression, and social fragmentation plague society. In an era where news travels around the world in minutes and you can learn intimate details about strangers with a few taps on a smartphone, how do we forge healthy relationships with other people, society, and even ourselves?
Danny Hillis is co-founder of Applied Minds, a research and development company that invents, designs, creates, and prototypes high-technology products and services. He is also the Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at University of Southern California. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation and was vice president and Disney fellow of research and deve...
David Boies is chairman of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP. He has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time, and Global International Litigator of the Year by Who’s Who Legal an unprecedented seven times. Boies was co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Perry v. Brown and Bostic v. Virginia, winning judgments that established the federal consti...
Ben Rhodes is the assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for strategic communications and speech writing, overseeing President Obama’s national security communications, speech writing, and global engagement. Previously, he served as deputy director of White House speech writing and as a senior speech writer for the Obama campaign. Prior to joining...
Maajid Nawaz is co-founder and chairman of Quilliam, a think tank focusing on integration, citizenship and identity, religious freedom, extremism, and immigration. A counter-extremism consultant, writer, debater, and public commentator, his work is informed by years spent as a youth leader of an Islamist group and gradual transformation toward liberal democratic values. Na...
Daisy Auger-Dominguez is founder and president of Auger-Dominguez Ventures workplace culture consultancy. Previously, she was senior vice president of talent acquisition atViacom, global head of diversity staffing at Google, vice president of talent acquisition, diversity, and inclusion at the Disney ABC Television Group, and managing director of executive search initiativ...
Joanna Smith-Ramani is managing director of the Financial Security Program at the Aspen Institute, overseeing programs that address financial security for all. Previously, she was senior innovation director at Commonwealth, where she developed innovations to improve savings and financial capability. Additionally, Smith-Ramani has led national and state legislative campaign...
Anthony Pegues is a Web developer at M.M.Lafleur, a venture-backed fashion house in New York City. Prior to this, he was a technology manager at Kilimanjaro Initiative USA, following his participation in its youth leadership training program in Africa in 2015. Pegues became a Web developer after graduating from the CodeBridge program, a web-development training course join...
Julia Marsh is a multidisciplinary designer whose work encourages empathy and environmental stewardship. Most recently with Brandless, she has eight years of experience in art direction, branding, typography, illustration, copywriting, and mission-driven design. Marsh earned her MFA in design at the School of Visual Arts in New York, which honored her with the Paula Rhodes...
Alexander Loznak is one of the 21 youth plaintiffs represented by legal nonprofit Our Children’s Trust in the US Supreme Court case Juliana v. United States, which challenges the US government’s policies that exacerbate climate change. He grew up on an organic farm in Oregon that his family has owned for over 150 years. Loznak was involved in local efforts to install solar...
Chelsea Sexton is an electric transportation expert and advisor, with two decades’ worth of expertise in market strategy, stakeholder engagement, retail processes, public policy, infrastructure, and communications. She was most recently a senior advisor to VantagePoint Capital Partners’ Cleantech practice, where she helped guide the firm’s transportation-related investment...
Waidehi Gokhale is CEO of Soliya, a not-for-profit that provides technology-enabled global exchange and education programming in partnership with institutions of higher education. In this role, she oversees the strategic direction, global fundraising, and operational and financial well-being of the organization. With 20 years of experience in the fields of psychology, peac...
Ron-Li Liaw is director of the Sala Institute Center for Child and Family Resilience and service chief for child and adolescent psychiatry at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone Health. She is a clinical associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and leads pediatric integration, family resiliency, and staff well-being strateg...
Sharon Brownie is a member of the PRAXIS Forum at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and an adjunct professor of Griffith University School of Medicine. A registered nurse and midwife, she has held senior leadership roles across the health, education, economic development, and employment sectors over the past 30 years. Brownie was previously the dean of nursing...
Stephen Messer is co-founder and vice chairman of collective[i] and Intelligence.com, offering applications and networks for sales professionals, and co-founder and president of World Evolved, a platform for global investment and expansion. Previously, Messer co-founded LinkShare Corporation. Cited in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The...