Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
Shannon Wanless
Office of Child Development, University of Pittsburgh
Executive Director & Associate Professor
Pennsylvania
Scott Wasserman
The Bell Policy Center
Former President
Colorado
Dr. Sarah Watamura
University of Denver, Department of Psychology
Professor
Colorado
Joe Waters
Capita
Co-Founder and CEO
South Carolina
Cary Waubanascum
University of North Dakota
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Health
Wisconsin
Atiya Weiss
Burke Foundation
Executive Director
New Jersey
Leseliey Welch
Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity
Co-Founder
Michigan
Jennifer Wells
Community Change
Director of Economic Justice
Alabama
Chelsea Wesner
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, University of Colorado
Research Instructor
South Dakota
Sherece West-Scantlebury
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
President and CEO
Arkansas
Roxane White
Strategy with Rox
Founder and CEO
Colorado
Henry Wilde
Acelero Learning, Inc.
Co-Founder & CEO
Wisconsin
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.