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The tiny town of Norwich, Vermont, has likely produced more Olympians per capita than anywhere else.
Olympian Eileen Gu and WNBA Washington Mystics team owner Sheila Johnson know firsthand the power of Title IX, and their careers are testament to why it’s been called one of the world’s most powerful laws. Though its purpose is to make sure that American girls and women can enjoy all the benefits of sport, it has changed the way women compete all around the world — and not...
The professional sports industry in the United States has historically been a man's game. Men have held leadership roles, designed competition formats, chosen which sports stories get elevated, and dictated how athletes are treated. What if pro sports were owned, designed, and run by women? It's already happening, in part, because fans are demanding it. But in the midst of...
Pick your issue: academic achievement, drug use, female empowerment, race relations, obesity, mental health, medical costs. Engaging young people in sports can help communities tackle all of these, and many more. What’s more, it can yield benefits like community cohesion, citizen engagement, economic productivity, urban development, and help foster social-emotional skills...
Two legends — a baseball superstar and a Wall Street titan — discuss how they are leveraging their passion for professional sports as a team stakeholder and an owner.
What if there were a pill that could help people move, think and sleep better, and that reduced anxiety, depression and 13 types of cancer — with the side effect of making more friends and more money? That’s what youth sports does. Learn about a national effort to get 63% of kids playing by 2030 — unlocking a projected $80 billion in societal benefits.
Excelling as an elite athlete isn’t just about performance — it’s also about not getting hurt. In this session, two Stanford researchers discuss how DNA data can help athletes predict propensity for injury. From genetic tests of 100 NFL linemen and collegiate cross-country runners, the researchers are using DNA sequencing, algorithms, population data sets, and evidence of...
American pro sports make a lot of money. Had it not been for the pandemic, the industry in North America was projected to generate $75.7 billion per year in revenue, a tally that includes ticket sales, television contracts, concessions, and advertising. Less easy to calculate — but also significant — is the impact of sports on communities. Sports have a profoundly positive...
Since the dawn of the Olympics, sports have been a contest of global powers. Today, how are sports used as a means of conducting foreign policy — for better and for worse?
Michelle Obama says play, nutrition, and physical activity aren’t available to every child.
Advocates, healthcare providers, legislators, researchers, and venture capitalists are bringing the unique health needs of women to light – from vigorous policy debates on issues affecting women’s bodies to groundbreaking research on fertility and menopause to an explosion of women-centered technology. But much more needs to be done. Gender differences in heart disease, de...
A Conversation with US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price (Interviewer: Jeffrey Goldberg) A Conversation with Larry Brilliant (Interviewer: Walter Isaacson) A Conversation with Cecile Richards (Interviewer: Pat Mitchell)
Meet Kyaw Thu Htet, 2023 Festival Fellow and founder of Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS), who is working to build a food-secure future by leveraging smallholder farms in developing countries.
Meet Dr. Ijeoma Opara, a 2024 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow and an Associate Professor at Yale University. Learn how she's engaging "citizen researchers" to co-create mental health programs, inform interventions, and deliver education services to residents of all ages.
Meet Dan Barker, a 2024 Festival Fellow and the CEO of Halcyon, an incubator and investor in early-stage, impact-driven startups from around the globe. Ahead of the Festival, we caught up with him about how Halcyon is supporting underserved entrepreneurs and working to change the venture capital landscape.
The Future Leaders Climate Summit gathers a diverse group of young climate changemakers for three days to discuss climate policy, communications, advocacy, and individual action with climate and energy experts, and participate in Aspen Ideas: Climate.
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.