Photo caption: Nina Kleinberg (left) and Liya Liang (right). “I think we all experienced some degree of loneliness during the pandemic,” says Liya Liang, a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “But I had no idea that loneliness can have such a...

It’s been quite a year at CoGenerate (formerly known as Encore.org)! We changed our name and reframed our mission. As CoGenerate, we’re focusing on what the vast and growing older population can do in collaboration with younger people to solve today’s most pressing...

In October, we joined forces with Generations Over Dinner, a challenge to gather all ages at the dinner table for meaningful multigenerational experiences and conversations and an invitation to anyone interested in the mutual benefits of intergenerational connection....

Separated in age by 50 years, Katelyn Seyle, 19, and Diane J. Harris, 69 (both pictured above), spent hours interviewing each other as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s intergenerational program, Mind the Gap. After a few months, each wrote a short play inspired by...

“Co” means together in Latin. Think connection, collaboration, community. Think CoGenerate. Today’s a big day for us. We’re changing our name from Encore.org to CoGenerate because we believe there’s never been a more critical — or more promising — time to reach across...

Last year, Serena Bian and Ernest Gonzales became Encore Public Voices Fellows, a group of more than 60 activists and experts working with Encore.org and The OpEd Project to shape public conversation at the intersection of aging, longevity, intergenerational...

Last week, I sat at a dinner table with an 82-year-old motorcycle-riding Texan and a 17-year-old prodigy in astrophysics who had never met before. I watched as the elder’s eyes grew wide when the teenager spoke passionately about Einstein’s theory of relativity. The...