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![Festival Fellow Spotlight: Jahnavi Rao](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/1feb5b65-9ef0-4e8f-b92e-04a965461db1/AIFStockHeroImages12.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=2623%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=290)
Meet Jahnavi Rao, a 2024 Festival Fellow and the founder and president of New Voters, a nonpartisan organization on a nationwide mission to help young people register to vote. Learn how she founded the organization when she was 17 years old and how it’s grown to over 400 high school chapters with 80,000 young students registered to vote.
![2024 Aspen Ideas Festival Fellows](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/09ede34d-e83c-4b3b-8c85-81c00a3bd865/52174777685_31c5b4246b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1208%2C0%2C4026%2C4024&w=290)
Meet the 2024 cohort of Aspen Ideas Festival Fellows, a diverse group of leaders who are selected for their innovative work, inspired accomplishments, and ability to transform ideas into action.
![Meet the 2024 Bezos Scholars](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/3f619178-aab0-4d4d-846a-3de89705f448/AIFStockHeroImages.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1304%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=290)
As the Aspen Ideas Festival returns this June, attendees will include 30 exceptional high school students and educators from across the United States and Africa—the 2024 cohort of the Bezos Scholars Program. These student Scholars are some of the youngest attendees at the Festival every year, and they are eager to learn, network, and hear from some of their favorite thinke...
![How to Talk to Your Teen](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/16b72010-78ab-4b45-bf73-a9b0da9a249a/AIFStockHeroImages2.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1963%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=290)
Lisa Damour is a clinical psychologist, author, and a senior advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University. We caught up with her about how psychologists understand mental health and solicited her advice on how parents can encourage healthy social media use for their teens.
![Can We Make Social Media Better?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2d5a512f-b95b-478c-9ea5-ccd31f5fed8e/AIFStockHeroImages1.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1288%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=290)
Can technology bolster democracy? MIT’s Deb Roy thinks so.
![250 Young People from Around the World Gather in Miami Beach for the Future Leaders Climate Summit](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/29a4ddd8-0c71-4e71-99c7-76de56080b32/AIFStockHeroImages8.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1249%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=290)
From March 3-6, 250 18 to 30-year-olds will build networks and discuss climate solutions with leading experts, before staying on for Aspen Ideas: Climate.
![Jonathan Haidt on Structural Stupidity](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c32a760c-fbdf-449d-8116-6bfcf8a6d5ef/2022BLOG-AIFSpeakerGuestBlogs5.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=2518%2C0%2C3242%2C3240&w=290)
Plus — Building a religiously diverse democracy and highlights from Aspen Ideas: Climate.
![Gen-Z: Young, Scrappy, and Changing the World](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d90829c7-39b5-41f6-82dc-edfc597c5f25/2022BLOG-AIFSpeakerGuestBlogs.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1184%2C0%2C3242%2C3240&w=290)
Gen-Z for Change's Aidan Kohn-Murphy on youth-led movements, his advice for young activists, and why it's impossible to lose hope.
![The Dangers of Our Bias Towards Beauty](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/3195523f-473e-4b4f-bce3-fabe86aa3c97/AIFSpeakerGuestBlogs7.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=809%2C0%2C2161%2C2160&w=290)
Neurologist Anjan Chatterjee explains why humans evolved to enjoy beauty, how sociocultural contexts shape our aesthetic preferences, and the "beauty is good" stereotype.
![2022 Aspen Ideas Festival Fellows](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/b5163147-8591-484d-a123-93e10ed1847d/48373116596_5779abd7cd_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=419%2C0%2C2191%2C2191&w=290)
The Aspen Ideas Festival Fellows are a diverse group of global leaders who are selected for their work, accomplishments, and ability to transform ideas into action.
![2022 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellows](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/15d21eef-cf44-45af-83df-0f6ade13effb/190622_aih_campus_096.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1022%2C0%2C2663%2C2661&w=290)
The Aspen Ideas: Health Fellows are a diverse group of health leaders who are selected for their work, accomplishments, and ability to transform ideas into action.
![How to Get Young People Interested in STEM](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2293d94b-beb6-4bce-95b3-ad4e3a91a936/AIH_Rao.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1461%2C1462&w=290)
Meet Gitanjali Rao, a 2022 Aspen Ideas: Health speaker with a goal to create global change by starting an innovation movement of teens looking to make a difference.
![Show Up: Resources to Get Engaged](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null3d498f50-8e80-47ee-a494-f0de0fe58433/ShowUp-GetEngaged.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1987%2C0%2C2119%2C2121&w=290)
Show Up speakers shared new ideas, initiatives, books, even songs. Inspired by their work, we’ve compiled these resources for you to continue exploring, and start doing.
![Corporate Leadership in Turbulent Times](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null6f2fcc4e-fe79-41b9-acca-fd8a3b9c45c7/AdobeStock_3670878.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=298%2C0%2C1600%2C1600&w=290)
As we look to the new normal, the first step in creating systemic solutions is to deeply examine how the institution you represent contributed to today’s injustices, says Prudential's Lata Reddy.
![This App Tells You When You’re Mean](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullc0b71621-37b1-46b2-a3f2-15da5542d339/AdobeStock_169689652.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=251%2C0%2C4000%2C4000&w=290)
What if when you posted something on Twitter or Instagram or another service, the platform gave you feedback? For example, “You just upset 10,000 people.”
![Mark Zuckerberg Wants the Government to Regulate Facebook — But Not Too Much](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null7b217499-f4d8-437b-89b8-eab6562095fc/AdobeStock_124634376.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=949%2C0%2C3744%2C3744&w=290)
Zuckerberg believes government regulation of social media platforms is the best way to handle the complex moral decisions private companies are trying to make on their own.
![Is Democracy in Crisis?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d40c5e23-569a-46d4-bae3-643d5944e0ae/AdobeStock_64908172.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1071%2C0%2C3744%2C3744&w=290)
Which countries are doing the most harm to democracy? And why is the United States struggling to maintain a healthy democratic system?
![Black Maternal Health: When the Village Itself May Be Too Toxic](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/a13cb57e-a99b-4c5c-b0f8-81b786dc1265/AdobeStock_110457966.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=767%2C0%2C4907%2C4912&w=290)
![How to Stop the Spread of Fake News on Social Media](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4d5721de-027c-481c-9f10-d32ed5fbcfa1/AIFStockHeroImages.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=2005%2C0%2C3242%2C3240&w=290)
How are social media platforms contributing to the polarization and radicalization of the Internet? Can we reestablish control over our own information and digital society?
![Busting Myths about Teens and Tech](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/699cb52f-355e-4b56-a048-afd28bf6faff/14705255353_5b689a2747_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=2297%2C0%2C4903%2C4901&w=290)