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Opportunity Youth Movement: Reflections and Strategies for Leading a Social Justice Agenda

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Channel: The Aspen Institute · 2017 · News & Politics

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The opening plenary session will bring together leaders from private equity (and formerly from government) and philanthropy to collectively reflect on the heightened uncertainty being experienced in communities across our country. Together, these leaders will consider how we must pivot from tactics deployed in the past to act in new ways and achieve better outcomes for our country’s most vulnerable populations, especially opportunity youth. These leaders will share what they have learned from their respective sectors, over the arcs of their professional careers about executing an agenda based on enduring values, including equity, justice, and youth-led change. We will also consider the foundational nature of these values to the Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund national network and learning agenda. Each leader will share ideas to encourage hope and sustain faith over the long-term, multi-generational, anti-poverty efforts of the Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund network.
 
Spoken Word Performance
Carlos Barbosa
 
Welcome Remarks
Monique Miles, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions
Steve Patrick,  Aspen Forum for Community Solutions
 
Opening Remarks
Melody Barnes, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions (Moderator)
Governor Deval Patrick, Managing Director of Double Impact Business, Bain Capital and former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Hilary Pennington, Vice President, Education, Creativity and Free Expression, Ford Foundation and co-founder, Jobs for the Future
 
Youth Respondents
Ryan Dalton, Cowen Institute  at Tulane University
Shawnice Jackson, National Council of Young Leaders – Opportunity Youth United
Kimberly Pham, Project U-Turn

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