How Aunties changed her life, plus other new stories we love!

I’m super excited to share my TEDx Talk: How Aunties Changed My Life.

In this 17-minute talk, I share my personal journey and what inspired me to create Hey Auntie!, a wellness platform tapping the proud history and cultural legacy of Black aunties to support Black women's mental health and well-being.

I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I value being part of the CoGenerate community!

With gratitude,

Nicole Kenney , Founder & CEO of Hey Auntie! and CoGenerate Innovation Fellow

The Buzz

A group of grandmothers is helping the world reimagine mental health care with Friendship Bench Zimbabwe , an inexpensive, effective way of providing intergenerational support. The latest on this “problem-solving therapy” from The Boston Globe.

With 50-year careers looming, we’ve got to make room for more twists and turns along the way. That’s at the heart of this thought-provoking Wall Street Journal article (paywall), featuring Innovation Fellow Charlotte Japp Crater .

A “gap year for adults” sounds good to us! CoGenerate Co-CEO Marc Freedman talks about our Encore Fellowships program in this Esquire article. Author Michael Clinton explains “why 65 isn’t the magic number for retirement anymore.”

Did you know there’s a growing movement of intergenerational programs based on college campuses? Learn what makes them successful, and challenging, in this interview with N.J. (Norma Jane) Pierce , author of a new report on campus cogeneration.

Check out this refreshing perspective on intergenerational activism from Julian Cauzae in the Miami Herald: "We must learn wisdom and new viewpoints from each other without condescension or animosity to create a healthy and habitable Earth for future generations."

Try This

Join us on March 23 at 2pm PT / 5pm ET as we introduce eight creative works — essays, poetry, video, visual arts, audio, and more. This new digital collection, created with The On Being Project, seeks to better understand the power of intergenerational collaboration to advance social healing. Register now!

Quotable

Diversity leads to richness. This is true for the diversity of race, gender, or culture. It is also true for the diversity of age.

— Ayse (Eye-Shay) Birsel , author of Design the Long Life You Love, in Fortune