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Why Do We Gather Together?

Whatever the crisis, we need to keep in touch with each other as deeply and frequently as we can.

BY Carl J. Strikwerda

Blog Post

05.18.2020
Africa and the Middle East

COVID on Kenya's front lines: Community-led solutions

Join the Aspen Global Innovators Group for an Aspen Health for All conversation to hear from two entrepreneurs wo ...

BY Aspen Global Innovators Group

Video

04.30.2020
Public Health

COVID on Kenya's front lines: Community-led solutions

The 30-minute session will feature Kennedy Odede and Ahmed "Kura" Omar, senior members of the Aspen New Voices Fellowship who are providing clean water, protective equipment, food, and more to some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Event

04.29.2020
Free Speech and Religion

Religion as Private and Public Good

This pandemic makes us think more about what faith communities offer to their congregants and their neighbors.

BY Religion & Society Program

Blog Post

04.14.2020
Technology

Intimacy in Isolation

APRIL 3, 2020 - COVID-19 is challenging that most primal of human instincts — to be together. To what extent will this type of interaction change our understanding of what it means to be in a community and a society?

BY Aspen Digital

Video

04.03.2020
Society

What It Means to Weave

Social fragmentation is the core challenge of our day. Here's what can be done.

BY Weave: The Social Fabric Project

Video

02.15.2019
Society

Who's On Your Moon List?

“I have a 24/7 phone number,” Charles Perry brags with his wide, easy smile. “No matter who you are, anytime you call me, day or night – I’m ther ...

BY April Lawson

Blog Post

02.13.2019
Society

Habit-izing Connection

One of the most popular books of 2019 has been Atomic Habits by James Clear—a practical guide to a body of scientific research which, in recent years, h ...

BY Shaylyn Romney Garrett

Blog Post

02.13.2019
Society

How We Mourn With Those Who Mourn

I recently attended a wedding reception where I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. Neither he nor I are the kind of people who do well mixing an ...

BY Shaylyn Romney Garrett

Blog Post

02.13.2019
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