Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
Rinku Sen
Narrative Initiative
Executive Director
Texas
Stephanie Seng
Colorado State University
Instructor/Director
Colorado
William Serrata
El Paso Community College
President
Texas
Ann Silverberg King
Casey Family Programs
Senior Director, Systems Improvement
Utah
Mario Small
Department of Sociology at Columbia University
Quetelet Professor of Social Science
Massachusetts
Keesa Smith
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
Executive Director
Arkansas
Vincent Smith
Division Chief of Newborn Medicine & Professor of Pediatrics
Boston Medical Center Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Massachusetts
Mary Anne Snyder
Colorado
Demetrius Starling
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Senior Deputy Director
Michigan
Dr. Darius Tandon
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Center for Community Health; Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Illinois
Maria Tarajano Rodman
Valley Settlement
Executive Director
Colorado
Cheryl Ternes
Arapahoe County
Former Human Services Director
Colorado
Ascend Fellows are a community of values-driven leaders who share an unwavering commitment to our shared goal of intergenerational family prosperity and well-being.