Caroline Jany

Deputy Director of Strategic Development, Office of the President

caroline.jany@aspeninstitute.org

Caroline helps to lead Institute-wide strategic development. Previously, Caroline served as the managing director for the Citizenship and American Identity Program. In this role, Caroline helped to lead initiatives focused on the challenge of sustaining democratic and civic culture in the United States. Caroline joined the Aspen Institute in 2014. Caroline holds a master’s degree in public policy management from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Washington University.

In America Today, Who Is “Us”?

Embracing a fuller understanding of “us” is not only a challenge but also an opportunity. And it is in our own best interest to do so.

BY Caroline Jany Ashley Quarcoo

03.03.2021
How to have a better argument across the political divide

A "better" argument is a way of engaging across differences, not by setting those differences aside, but by engaging them directly.

BY Caroline Jany

01.07.2021
Who Is Us: Defining American Identity

“Who Is Us?,” a research project from the Aspen Institute and the Democracy Fund, centers on the idea that severe fragmentation of American society is a direct threat to our democracy.

BY Caroline Jany

01.04.2021
Reactivating Our American Citizenship

After recent events in Charlottesville, how can we all stand up against bigotry and hate?

BY Caroline Jany

08.18.2017
Science and Civic Partnerships

In an age of “alternative facts,” it is necessary and urgent to defend the vital role of science to our wellbeing. In order to approach many of our nat ...

BY Caroline Jany

02.22.2017

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