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Founder and Co-Host, "What Could Go Right," Progress Network; President, River Twice Capital; Author
Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Brown University
Professor and The Renee & U.S. Marine LCPl Bob Parsons Endowed Chair, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
CEO, Business Roundtable; Former Chief of Staff, George W. Bush White House

The Aspen Institute and the Chicago Climate Corps (C3) are hosting Aspen Ideas: Climate – Chicago (AICC) in Chicago on July 20-22, 2025. Sign up to receive updates about the event.

Aspen Ideas: Climate 2025 highlight areas where Chicago and the Midwest have particular strengths and challenges, including:

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The Aspen Ideas Festival will be held June 25 – July 1, 2025. Join us on our art-filled campus in Aspen, Colorado.

Aspen Ideas: Climate is designed to offer the public a chance to interact, learn, and collaborate with thinkers and do-ers whose actions are critical to addressing our collective future around the realities of a changing climate.

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Today’s boys and young men are having a tough time. By several measures of success and happiness, they’re struggling to keep up and turning to the internet for help, where many end up hooked by extremists. We need to find better ways to frame the problem, support them and push them in the right direction. The solution starts with a frank conversation about what’s really go...
Senior Pastor, Twelfth Baptist Church, and President and CEO, The American City Coalition
Frankfort Family Director, Center for Empathy in Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine