Scott Strode

Founder and executive director of The Phoenix, a national sober active community that supports addiction recovery through fitness, social connection, and peer-led community. He is also a public speaker and author focused on recovery, nonprofit leadership, and building movements of hope.

A 10-Year Civic Campaign Aims to Turn Local Trust Into Action

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Heather Gerken, Brian Hooks, Jane Wales and other civic and philanthropic leaders cast Be the People as a decade-long effort to counter civic isolation by reconnecting Americans with local problem-solving. Their argument is that Americans retain more trust, generosity and desire to contribute than national political narratives suggest, but need institutions, cultural messengers and community organizations that make that shared agency visible and usable.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202616 min read