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Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder
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Understanding the Field: Community Conversation with Rutgers Institute Staff and Fellows
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
Forum attendees will engage in a conversation with a panel of employee ownership experts about the different forms of ownership and the challenges and opportunities each holds for expanding broad-based ownership within the US.
Speakers
Daphne Berry, Associate Professor of Business, University of Hartford
Melissa Hoover, Senior Director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University
Christopher Michael, Senior Director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University
Moderator: Maureen Conway, Vice President at the Aspen Institute, Executive Director, Economic Opportunities Program
Thank you to our colleagues at the Ford Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Prudential Financial for their generous support of the 2025 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum. Rutgers University also appreciates the support of the Sorenson Impact Foundation for its support of this convening and other events in 2025.
Description
Forum attendees will engage in a conversation with a panel of employee ownership experts about the different forms of ownership and the challenges and opportunities each holds for expanding broad-based ownership within the US.
Speakers
Daphne Berry, Associate Professor of Business, University of Hartford
Melissa Hoover, Senior Director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University
Christopher Michael, Senior Director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University
Moderator: Maureen Conway, Vice President at the Aspen Institute, Executive Director, Economic Opportunities Program
Thank you to our colleagues at the Ford Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Prudential Financial for their generous support of the 2025 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum. Rutgers University also appreciates the support of the Sorenson Impact Foundation for its support of this convening and other events in 2025.
For the benefit of workers, businesses, and our society, we need to build workplace heat safety into our culture, policies, and practices if we are to adapt to our warming planet. Join the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on Wednesday, July 30, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, on Zoom to learn about how the warming climate is affecting workers, and what policymakers, businesses, and labor are doing to keep workers safe. This event is part of EOP’s Opportunity in America conversation series.
“The Future of Equal Opportunity,” will explore the current landscape, emerging challenges, and the strategies needed to protect and strengthen opportunity in the American workplace.
The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program will soon release a report, Fixing Work: Lessons from Job Quality Practitioners, based on in-depth interviews with more than 20 leaders across the country about the work they are doing to create good jobs that provide economic security, the opportunity to advance and grow, and a safe, dignified, and equitable workplace.
Hear from CDFIs about their approaches to building job quality advising into their work, and share your questions and comments. We are eager to hear what you think!
In addition to providing an overview of the nomination and application process, we’re pleased to welcome two Job Quality Fellows to this conversation — Neidi Dominguez Zamorano, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, and Bo Delp, executive director of the Texas Climate Jobs Project — who will share their experience as members of the Fellowship.
