Contemporary Issues Forum

Better Together: Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society

SPEAKER:

Eunice Lin Nichols
Co-CEO, CoGenerate

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TOPIC:

We’re living in the most age-diverse time in human history, with equal numbers of people alive at every age, from birth to age 70 and beyond. Simultaneously, we’re the most age-segregated nation we’ve ever been — a dangerous experiment linked to a raft of problems, including generational conflict, rampant ageism, and an epidemic of loneliness and isolation. It’s time to turn the situation around and build the “future of together,” a multigenerational force for good anchored in the promise and potential of our country’s new age-diversity. But are we ready? Will we squander the moment — or even worse, allow it to sow more societal divisions? Join Eunice Lin Nichols, Co-CEO of CoGenerate, the nation’s leading nonprofit on bridging generational divides, to hear insights on how to harness age integration to solve problems no generation can solve alone. Together, we can co-create a more interdependent and joyful future that works for all of us.

Speaker Bio:

Eunice Lin Nichols is Co-CEO of CoGenerate. She has spent more than 25 years bringing older and younger generations together to bridge divides and solve problems, including leading CoGenerate’s innovation portfolio, serving as national campaign director for the Generation to Generation initiative, running The Purpose Prize (now a program of AARP), and scaling Experience Corps (also now a program of AARP) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Eunice has been featured on the inaugural Eames Institute Curious 100 List, recognized as a Next Avenue Influencer in Aging, and is a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for advancing innovative and effective solutions to California’s most significant issues. She serves on the board of directors for Citizen University, the Milken Institute’s Future of Aging advisory board, More Perfect’s National Service & Volunteering steering committee, and the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships editorial board.

Venue located on Chautauqua Institution grounds; a gate pass is required.