Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
Andrea Levere
Capitalize Good
CEO
District of Columbia
Vance Lewis
Promise Venture Studio
Associate Partner
California
Ron-Li Liaw
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Mental Health In-Chief, Cannon Y. & Lyndia Harvey Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Chair of the Pediatric Mental Health Institute
Colorado
Kirsten Lodal
LIFT
Founder and Senior Advisor
District of Columbia
Pascual Maestas
Town of Taos, New Mexico
Mayor
New Mexico
Meera Mani
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Senior Advisor
California
Karla Maraccini
Deloitte Consulting
Government and Public Sector Professional
Colorado
Lucy Marcil
Boston University
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Massachusetts
Don Mares
The Colorado Trust
President and Chief Executive Officer
Colorado
C. Nicole Mason
Institute for Women's Policy Research
President Emerita
District of Columbia
Felix V. Matos Rodriguez
City University of New York College System
Chancellor
New York
Margaret McKenna
Boston Human Rights Commission
Chairwoman
Massachusetts
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.