Gael Aitor
Creator and Co-Host, “Teenager Therapy” Podcast
Gael Aitor is the creator and a host of the “Teenager Therapy” podcast, a teen mental health podcast with over 700,000 followers. At 19 years old, he has five years of experience in the podcasting space and is an expert at growing engaged Gen Z audiences on social media. Previous guests of “Teenager Therapy” include Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Adam Mosseri, and Loren Gray. Aitor is a fellow at On Deck, an educational and accelerator community, and was a contract community specialist at Pearpop, a creator collaboration platform. He has been featured in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, and the TIME100 Talks for his work at “Teenager Therapy.” He graduated from high school in 2021.
Previously
Young people have it rough. From 2007 to 2019, the number of adolescents who reported having a depressive episode jumped 60 percent. And that increase was before the pandemic,...
We’ll kick off the Festival with Big Ideas, followed by a dialogue on the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade.