We’re excited to introduce the inaugural Campus CoGenerate Steering Committee, a dynamic group of students and higher education leaders who bring a wide range of institutional perspectives, regional representation, and lived...

We’re excited to introduce the inaugural Campus CoGenerate Steering Committee, a dynamic group of students and higher education leaders who bring a wide range of institutional perspectives, regional representation, and lived...
Young leaders can often bring visibility and cultural clout. Older leaders can often bring resources, networks, and institutional power. Put them together and the potential is huge. But let’s be honest, it’s not always that simple. This session delivers a primer on...
As colleagues from different generations (x and millennial), Marci Alboher and Duncan Magidson have been leading talks and workshops sharing their insights about working across generations. As they plan, they usually text furiously, sharing ideas and reflections....
Art has the power to bring people together. In the Chicago area, Innovation 80’s CoGen initiative encourages and funds programs that forge meaningful relationships between younger and older generations as they create art together. What can programs like this one teach...
We’re proud to introduce you to a group of esteemed thought leaders, changemakers, entrepreneurs, researchers and organizers who are partnering with us to make cogeneration a powerful force in American life. These 11 CoGen Impact Fellows are thinking up (and lifting up) big ideas to bring older and younger people together, solving big problems using cogenerational strategies, and sharing big learnings to advance the field.
Arielle Galinsky
Let’s Make Next Gen CoGen
Arielle Galinsky is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the founder of The Legacy Project, a nonprofit connecting college students and older adults to build intergenerational connections. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, Arielle leads a national campaign to encourage people – via the “Let’s Make Next Gen CoGen” pledge – to reach across age divides and create a community where all generations thrive. In recent weeks, Teen Vogue published an essay by Arielle, and The Legacy project was featured on NPR’s Here & Now.
Ashton Applewhite
Youngers & Olders Dismantling Ageism
An internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a co-founder of the Old School Hub. She is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and make age a criterion for diversity. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, Ashton leads YODA (Youngers + Olders Dismantling Ageism), a campaign to bring older and younger people together to talk about age and power, and to join forces in the fight against ageism.
Dillon St. Bernard
Cogeneration With Youth
Dillon St. Bernard is a narrative change strategist, communications advisor, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. He is the Chief Creative Officer of Team DSB, a creative collective supporting the digital communications and cultural strategy needs of purpose-driven brands, organizations, and creators who ignite movements. And he’s a strategist working with Made By Us, a network using history to inform civic participation in teens and young adults. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, Dillon is working on a qualitative research study on what teenagers want – and don’t want – from older allies.
Tanzina Vega
Cogenerational Allyship
Tanzina Vega is an experienced journalist, host and producer in the media industry, having worked at The Boston Globe, New York Times, CNN, and New York Public Radio. She’s led coverage on key issues, including social change, politics, technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal justice reform, privacy rights, and wealth inequality – topics that are not just of the moment, but that will continue to shape our future. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, Tanzina is working on a qualitative research study on what older adults want – and don’t want – from younger allies.
Eddie Gonzalez
Faith Across Generations
Eddie Gonzalez works at the intersections of spiritual care, community engagement, digital media, and creative expression. With a background in journalism and creative writing, he became a hospice chaplain in 2009, and over the past 16 years has worked within healthcare and national nonprofits – most recently at On Being and StoryCorps – to create meaningful spaces for storytelling, reflective dialogue, and compassionate listening. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, Eddie is working on a qualitative research study exploring how cogeneration can help renew religious communities and faith spaces, bringing older and younger people together in common purpose.
Phyllis Segal
Generations Serving Together
Phyllis Segal, an experienced leader in the nonprofit and public sectors, serves on the board of the Eli J. and Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Program, which she co-founded, at Brandeis University.
As a long-time leader at Encore.org (now CoGenerate), Phyllis spearheaded many groundbreaking initiatives, including the Gen2Gen campaign, research to understand encore talent as a resource for meeting society’s most pressing needs, and programs to offer pathways for people in later life who want to transition to new work in nonprofits and government. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, she advances intergenerational service as a powerful new way to meet community needs and build bridges across differences.
Simon Chan
Campus CoGenerate
Simon Chan is the founder and CEO of Adapt with Intent Inc., a strategic advisory firm that helps senior leadership teams thrive in a multigenerational society. He is a Global Ambassador for the Stanford Center on Longevity, a board member of the Yale School of Management’s Experienced Leaders Initiative, and Co-Chair of The Nexel Collaborative, where he works to build a global alliance of campuses that run midlife transition programs and foster lifelong learning and intergenerational collaboration. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, he works to find and elevate big ideas that will transform higher education into a center for intergenerational connection and collaboration.
Ru R
Campus CoGenerate
Ru R is a student in Human Services at the College of DuPage, an age-diverse public community college and minority-serving institution in Illinois. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, she works to amplify student perspectives and increase student engagement across the Campus CoGenerate Affinity Network. The goal: to harness the power of cogenerational social capital to foster connection and expand opportunity in higher education settings.
Markya Reed
Campus CoGenerate
Markya Reed is a student affairs professional at Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. candidate in education at Morgan State University. She’s passionate about bringing people together – students, faculty, staff, and administrators – to strengthen civic engagement initiatives and create cultures of constructive dialogue. Before her work in higher ed, Markya served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica (2018-2020), where she worked alongside communities to develop sustainable youth programs focused on enhancing student voice and developing critical life skills. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, she works to transform higher education into a nexus for intergenerational connection and collaboration.
Cal J. Halvorsen
Senior Research Fellow
Cal J. Halvorsen, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, a project lead and investigator at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, and a research affiliate at the Karolinska Institute Unit of Occupational Medicine in Stockholm. His research examines aging societies and later-life work, with particular emphasis on self-employment, encore careers, low-income workers, and volunteering. As a CoGen Senior Research Fellow, Cal advises CoGenerate on topics including national survey research, and program impact and evaluation.
John Loughnane, MD
Entrepreneur in Residence
John Loughnane is an experienced medical doctor, administrator, health innovator and entrepreneur. At Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA), he founded a palliative care program and a venture accelerator. After leaving CCA, John co-founded Present for You, a serious illness doula company that provides care for patients via direct-to-consumer and hospice partners, and Gather Health, a socially focused primary care practice in Massachusetts for patients over 65. As CoGenerate’s Entrepreneur in Residence, John is laying the groundwork for a CoGen Health Corps that would provide seasoned medical professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, etc.) with opportunities for fractional-time, paid work in their fields. The goal: to create a sustainable, multigenerational workforce that strengthens individuals and healthcare systems.