Aisha Nyandoro
Madison, Mississippi
Dr. Aisha Nyandoro is the CEO of Springboard To Opportunities, a nonprofit organization that serves communities in Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Springboard is focused on helping residents of affordable housing advance themselves in life, school, and work. Springboard’s programs are fundamentally resident-driven and based on the needs of the community to create resources that support and empower families.
Stories featuring Aisha Nyandoro
With this inspiration and these connections, my percolations turned from idea to action with the founding of Ascend at the Aspen Institute . I broug...
My heart is filled with love and gratitude for the courageous community of leaders our Ascend at the Aspen Institute team works with everyday. And I...
Dr. Aisha Nyandoro, an Ascend Fellow, is one of three winners of the 2022 John P. McNulty Prize.
I started off the 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival at Aspen Words Book Ball, a passion project of Isa Catto and Daniel Shaw.
This year, the Aspen Idea Festival returns to in-person programming at our campus in the Rocky Mountains June 25 - July 1, 2022.
Although Black women continue to make significant contributions to their families and society, including being the top breadwinners and the most educa...
Image caption: Ascend Fellows at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 2018. Pictured left to right: Ann Kalass, Darius Tandon, Kirsten Lodal,...
In an op-ed co-authored by Aisha Nyandoro of Springboard to Opportunities and Trene Hawkins of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Asc...
Ascend is honored that our Executive Director Anne Mosle has been named to the Holding Co.’s CARE 100 List, a first-of-its-kind list of the people d...
In a time of crisis, leaders emerge. The Harvard Business School underscored this point with an article by Professor Bill George on 10 outstanding lea...
“It really is the agency and dignity that cash restores.” – Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, Ascend Fellow, and Family P...
As state and federal lawmakers prepare for the year ahead, more than 350 practice and community leaders, policymakers, researchers, and philanthropist...
The opinions expressed in this piece are those of the undersigned members of the 2015 class of Ascend Fellows and don’t necessarily represent the vi...
Convenings Featuring Aisha Nyandoro
Location: Virtual & In-Person in Washington, DC
Over the course of two days, our discussions focused on bold, equitable, and pragmatic strategies for building prosperity and well-being for all families. Sessions include insights from the latest two-generation (2Gen) family data, examples of...
Location: Washington, DC & Virtual
How can we embrace and accelerate a new agenda for families? Let us seize this moment to create bold change centering racial, gender, and economic justice, and advance approaches to intergenerational prosperity and well-being that leaves no one out....
Location: St. Regis Hotel Courtyard (Aspen, CO) & Live Webcast (virtual)
Many places we look, we are stuck. Stuck in old ways and old thinking. We are burdened by zero-sum thinking and surrounded by the word ‘can’t.’ Our best way to get unstuck is to follow and stand with visionary leaders that don’t get...
Location: Virtual
The White House Gender Policy Council’s release of the National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality is a historic accomplishment that is the first-of-its-kind in the US. Its release is a crucial step toward addressing gender inequality and...
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Guaranteed income pilots and projects have proliferated across the country over the last few years – what results do these pilots demonstrate, and what might the implications be for how we approach entrenched narratives around families with low...
