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This week on Experience Talks we focus on experience as a catalyst for social change. Host Tim Carpenter talks with Experience Corps CEO Lester Strong and How to Change the World author David Bornstein.
Lester Strong is the CEO of Experience Corps, an award- winning national program engaging people over 55 in meeting their communities’ greatest challenges. 2,000 Experience Corps members tutor and mentor in 22 cities across the country, providing literacy coaching, homework help, consistent role models and committed, caring attention. He spent 25-years in the television industry as an executive, producer, reporter and anchor. For more information on Lester, go to ExperienceCorps.
David Bornstein is a journalist who specializes in writing about social innovation and is the author of The Price of a Dream and How to Save the World. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times, and he co-wrote the PBS documentary “To Our Credit.” He will talk about his new book, Social Entrepreneurship. For more information on David, go to his blog.
