Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
Felix V. Matos Rodriguez
City University of New York College System
Chancellor
New York
Margaret McKenna
Boston Human Rights Commission
Chairwoman
Massachusetts
Emily Miller
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Division Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rhode Island
Georgia Mjartan
Central Carolina Community Foundation
President and CEO
South Carolina
Catherine Monk
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Diana Vagelos Professor of Women’s Mental Health
New York
Wes Moore
State of Maryland
Governor of Maryland
Maryland
Alicia Mousseau
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Vice President
South Dakota
Amanda Navarro
Convergence Partnership
Executive Director
New York
Dipesh Navsaria
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Human Ecology
Clinical Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Wisconsin
Vivian Nixon
Columbia Justice Lab Square One Project
Writer in Residence
New York
Michael Niyompong
Merage Foundations
Executive Director
Colorado
Christine Norbut Beyer
New Jersey Department of Children and Families
Commissioner
New Jersey
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.