From The Hart Podcast - Presented by Enterprise Bank & Trust1 Maj 2024

This Chair Rocks - A Manifesto Against Ageism - Ashton Applewhite

Ashton Applewhite is an internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhite isthe author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a co-founder of the OldSchool Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. She speaks widely at venues that have included the UnitedNations and the TED mainstage, and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raiseawareness of ageism and make age a criterion for diversity. In 2022 the United Nations named Ashton one of the Healthy Aging 50: fifty leaders transforming the world to be a better place to grow older.

She has been recognized by the New York Times, National Public Radio, the New Yorker, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism and named as a Fellow by the Knight Foundation, the New York Times, Yale Law School, and the Royal Society for the Arts

She has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times

She speaks widely, at venues that have ranged from universities and community centers to the Library of Congress and the United Nations.

In 2017 she received a standing ovation for her Ted Talk in Vancouver.

She has received numerous awards for her work, including being named one of “fiftyleaders working to transform the world to be a better place to grow older” bythe UN’s Decade of Healthy Aging platform (a collaboration between the WHO) in 2022.

Join us as we sat down, coast-to-coast - Ed in his Southern California studio, and Ashton in her charming home in Brooklyn, NY, for this fun, enlightening, and sometimes deep conversation.

You can reach Ashton in a multitude of ways, including at https://thischairrocks.com/, ashton@thischairrocks.com.

Twitter: @thischairrocks

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ThisChairRocks

Instagram: www.instagram.com/thischairrocks

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AshtonApplewhiteVideos

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashton-applewhite-64658/

RSS: https://thischairrocks.com/feed/

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