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Candid Conversations: What Is the Role of Immersive Tech in Education?
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Candid Conversations: Are Community Colleges the New AI Training Grounds?
Candid Conversations: How Does Education in Prison Lead to Economic Mobility?
Season 3, Episode 6: Horizons Summit 2024: Previewing The Power of Us
It’s time to realize The Power of Us. The theme of this year’s Horizons summit is at the center of this season’s final episode of the Horizons podcast. Jobs for the Future (JFF) President and CEO Maria Flynn joins host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield to preview this summer’s gathering of public and private stakeholders, including some of the biggest names in education, business, activism, and philanthropy.
Season 3, Episode 5: Banning LGBTQ Education Blocks LGBTQ Economic Advancement Part 2
LGBTQ workers and learners are under attack around the United States despite decades of strides for civil rights, including a 2020 landmark Supreme Court ruling protecting Americans from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Season 3, Episode 5: Banning LGBTQ Education Blocks LGBTQ Economic Advancement
LGBTQ workers and learners are under attack around the United States despite decades of strides for civil rights, including a 2020 landmark Supreme Court ruling protecting Americans from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Season 3, Episode 4: Update on Gen Z’s Workplace Values
In this episode of the Horizon’s podcast, host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield passes the microphone to two young adults from Generation Z—host Alex Edgar, a youth civic engagement expert, and special guest Zoë Jenkins, a diversity, equity, and inclusion thought leader, as they discuss the future of work from a Generation Z perspective.
Season 3, Episode 3: Equity Needed for the American Dream
In this episode of the Horizons podcast, we explore one aspect of the American dream—climbing the corporate ladder. Abigail Disney of Hollywood’s dream-making family takes the stage at Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) Horizons summit, calling out corporate leaders for perpetuating a fairytale of upward mobility for all and challenging them to reshape the U.S. economy for the benefit of all workers. Host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield continues the conversation started by Disney with special guest Ashley Black, Managing Director of Equity Strategies for Delta Airlines. Black shares the industry leader’s blueprint for a more equitable and sustainable future of work for its frontline staffers. Together, they explore the routes that Delta is taking to help its workers’ dreams take flight.
Season 3, Episode 2: Hard Data on Equity for U.S. Workers
In this episode of the Horizons podcast, we look at who is getting ahead in the U.S. workforce, who is getting left behind, and why.
Season 3, Episode 1: Quality Jobs for Gig Workers
Investing in human potential sits at the center of the Horizons podcast’s season opener. This is a primary focus of Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) North Star: In 10 years, 75 million people facing systemic barriers to advancement will work in quality jobs. Host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield and special guest Adrian Haro, CEO of The Workers Lab, dig deeper into some of the themes presented by JFF President and CEO Maria Flynn at the 2023 Horizons summit with a special lens on a significant population in our workforce—gig workers.
Horizons: The Power of Us - Sizzle 2024
Horizons: The Power of Us - Sizzle Reel 2024
Building a Future of Work and Learning ‘Without Limits’ at Horizons
At JFF’s 2023 Horizons Summit, workers and learners set ambitious goals for equity and staying on top of an evolving ecosystem.
Find Your Passion, Trust Young Talent, and More Lessons From Gen Z
This year, Jobs for the Future’s Horizons summit welcomed eight Horizons Ambassadors—young people navigating the path from high school to postsecondary learning and careers. Here are reflections from two of the Ambassadors: Dayanara Rocha-Castillo, a student at Brigham Young University, and Alex Edgar, a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Horizons: Horizons Ambassadors
This year at Horizons, JFF launched an Ambassador Program to engage young adults who represent learners and early career talent in the Horizons experience. Our ambassadors served as advisors who uplift the voices of early talent at the summit, and joined key parts of our on-site programming.
Horizons: AI and Employment - Candid Conversation at Horizons Without Limits 2023
Tod Loofbourrow, CEO and Chairman, ViralGains and Erik Brynjolfsson, Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab & Professor and Senior Fellow, Standford Institute for Human-Centered AI join together for a candid conversation at Horizons 2023 on Ai and employment. Hear what they have to say!
Horizons: Women in Leadership - Candid Conversation at Horizons Without Limits 2023
Ellen McGirt, Senior Correspondent, Fortune Magazine, Lissette Nieves, President, Fund for the City of New York and Ahva Sadeghi, Co-Founder and CEO, Symba join together for a candid conversation on Women in Leadership they discuss why do we have to keep saying "Women in Leadership"?
Horizons: The Power of Community and Capitalism - Candid Conversation at Horizons Without Limits 2023
James Rhee, Founder, red helicopter and form CEO, Ashley Stewart and Saket Soni, Activist, Community Organizer, & Executive Director and Co-Founder, Resilience Force join together for a candid conversation on The Power of Community and Capitalism.
Horizons: Resilience Force
Resilience workers Joel Salazar and Tonya Freeman-Brown of Resilience Force a national initiative to transform America's response to disasters by strengthening and securing America's Resilience Workforce joined us at Horizons Without Limits to share their personal stories and commitment to help—the millions people whose work, heart and expertise make sustainable recovery from disasters possible.
Horizons: “No Choice”: How Gen Z is Changing the Fabric of the Nation
With their significant purchasing power and growing presence in the workforce, Gen Z is altering how we approach capitalism, political activism, climate change, and more. Two such voices—Jaylen Smith, America’s youngest mayor, and Kristy Drutman, founder of Browngirl Green—are among the first of their generation to critically change the status quo. At Horizons, they explored their generation’s unique challenges and opportunities while navigating a rapidly changing world alongside Megan Leonhardt, Senior Writer, Fortune.
Horizons: Driving Climate Change - Candid Conversation at Horizons Without Limits 2023
Taj Eldridge, Managing Director, Climate Innovation, JFFLabs, Brandon Dennison, Founder and CEO, Coalfield Development and Efrem Bycer, Senior Lead Manager for Workforce and Sustainability Policy Partnerships, LinkedIn join together for a candid conversation on Driving Climate Change: The Intersection of Jobs, Economics and the Environment. Checkout their conversation around the idea of climate and workforce!
Horizons: Technology Built by Humans, for Humans–Keeping Ethics at the Forefront of AI Design
Artificial intelligence has already infiltrated high school essays, passed university-level exams, and automated white-collar tasks. The next technology revolution has already begun—and we’re already seeing the use of AI explode in our workplace and educational systems. Hear from technology leaders and futurists: Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab; Derek Thompson, Staff Writer, The Atlantic; Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO, Coursera and Noelle Russell, Global AI Solutions Lead, Accenture on how we can responsibly incorporate this next frontier of technology into our offices and classrooms.
Horizons: Systems Design Principles of Purpose, Potential, and All Populations
We all want to better serve learners and workers—but how? There is no better time to determine how our systems should be redesigned for a future that ensures prosperity for workers, their families, and their employers. Hear four points of view from Hilary Pennington, Executive Vice President of Programs, Ford Foundation, James Rhee, Founder, red helicopter & former CEO, Ashley Stewart, Rachel Korberg, Executive Director and Co-founder, the Family and Workers Fund and Saket Soni, Executive Director, Resilience Force as they discuss what practices we should keep, sunset, scale, and innovate without limits.
Horizons: The Fight for LGBTQ Rights is Also the Fight for Economic Advancement
The fight for LGBTQ rights has both made tremendous progress in the past two decades and suffered painful and dangerous setbacks. Currently, there are active and ongoing efforts to restrict the liberties of queer individuals in classrooms, offices, and public spaces, with the ACLU tracking over 450 anti-LGBTQ bills across the country. We’ll discuss the state of the LGBTQ movement and see what lessons can drive economic advancement for queer learners and workers in today’s increasingly polarized society. We'll also examine what has been learned by this movement that can apply to the barriers and opportunities experienced by other groups.
Horizons: Making sense of it all - where are we headed
Allison Gerber, Director of Employment, Education and Training, Annie E. Casey Foundation and Steve Hatfield, Global Future of Work Leader, Deloitte are making sense of it all on stage during our Horizons summit by answering the questions: What do these emerging trends and these new realities mean for the future of work and learning? What’s their impact on a multigenerational workforce with a multitude of skills and experiences unlike any we’ve ever seen before?
Horizons: Setting the Stage with Richard Reeves and Karin Kimbrough
Richard Reeves, Senior Fellow in Economics Studies, Brookings Institution and Karin Kimbrough, Chief Economist, LinkedIn Corporation unpack the state of the economy and the biggest economic trends that leaders in education and workforce development should be focusing on. They share what they see as the most important themes in this moment, setting the stage for the rest of the summit with a big picture, data-informed discussion on what really matters most right now for those who want to advance equity in the education and workforce space.
Horizons: How About That American Dream: A Conversation With Abigail Disney
Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and philanthropist Abigail Disney has used her position of privilege to condemn the inequities of American businesses and how unfair tax codes inhibit most from attaining the American Dream. She is joined on stage with Ellen McGirt, Senior Editor, Fortune who ask, Disney based on her films, commentary and criticisms, to share specific actions that employers, labor, policymakers, and others who can use their influence and power should take to revitalize the American Dream for everyone Based on her films, commentary, and criticisms.
Horizons: What Does Without Limits Mean To You?
Maria Flynn, President and CEO, Jobs for the Future (JFF) kicks off Horizons with a call to action on how we can work together to broaden the horizons for all learners and workers by pushing us to imagine a world Without Limits.
Horizons: Karen Kimbrough at #JFFHorizons Day 1
Karin Kimbrough set the stage from the first day at #JFFHorizons along Richard Reeves unpacking the state of the economy and the biggest economic trends that leaders in education and workforce development should be focusing on. Reflect on your experience at Horizons and share your biggest takeaways.
Season 2, Episode 8: Dual Transformation: Creating a Better Tomorrow for Today’s Workforce
In this final episode of season 2 of the Horizons podcast, host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield and special guest Maria Flynn, President and CEO of JFF, dissect some of the efforts that are in motion to create a more equitable workforce post-pandemic and how the approach of dual transformation can help address the change that’s needed now and in the future.
Season 2, Episode 7: How to Build a Stronger Workforce: A Cross Sector Perspective
In this episode of the Horizons podcast, collaboration is key. Experts from the education, business, and nonprofit sectors explore effective ways to work together to create pathways to success for all Americans and, by extension, build a more robust workforce. Host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield talks to special guest Anthony Carnevale, Research Professor and Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, to advance the conversation and provide a unique political perspective.
Horizons: Without Limits – Sizzle 2023
Horizons is more than an annual summit. Horizons is the premier national platform for ideas and action to drive equitable economic advancement for all. It’s the place where we explore without limits to find innovative practices and scalable solutions to transform our education and workforce systems.
Horizons: On the Record Episode 5, A Fair Chance for Success
Episode 5 discusses how one in three people in the United States have a criminal record that negatively impacts their employment opportunities. In a 2021 survey from the Society for Human Resource Management, more than 53% of HR professionals said they are interested in hiring people with records.
Season 2, Episode 6: What “Nontraditional” Learners Teach All of Us
In this episode, “non-traditional” students take the stage to share their stories of struggle and triumph. More than 70% of people in the United States pursuing higher education are considered non-traditional, yet many grapple with securing pathways to success between the classroom and work.
Season 2, Episode 5: Entrepreneurial Ambition - Building to Scale
In this episode, we hear from a group of ambitious entrepreneurs who are betting that they can use the power of business to help build a sustainable workforce by addressing the needs of workers and employers at scale. Host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield is joined by special guest Mallory Dwinal-Palisch, CEO of Craft Education System and Chancellor of Reach University.
Season 2, Episode 4: Creating Tomorrow's Workforce Today
In this episode, Tameshia Bridges Mansfield is joined by special guest Zoe Weintraub, senior vice president of Executive and Community Partnerships at Guild Education. How do we reimagine the workforce – the opportunities and challenges -- as corporations shift to skills-based hiring and expand access to on-the-job training? Mansfield and Weintraub carry the conversation forward from JFF’s annual Horizons summit, where leaders across the private sector discussed shifting systems to attract and retain a diverse and talented workforce.Guest Speakers from the stage:Monique Baptiste, Executive Director, Corporate DEI Talent Advisor, JP Morgan Chase & Company Lydia Logan, Vice President for Global Education and Workforce Development at IBMRyan Stowers, Executive Director at the Charles Koch Foundation.Moderator, Cat Ward: Vice President of Employer Mobilization, JFF
Season 2, Episode 3: Mission Critical: Financing the Future of Learning Today
In this episode,Tameshia Bridges Mansfield and special guest Sarah Miller of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta carry forward the conversation from JFF's annual Horizons summit. They discuss the challenge of financing the future of work and how today's future of learning -- with or without a college degree -- can prepare workers for sustainable careers and a viable U.S. labor market.
Season 2, Episode 2: Working Toward A Future of Lifelong Learning
In this episode, host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield examines the future of work and learning as experts in education, workforce development, and business ask the important question – what constitutes success? Most Americans do not have a college degree. So how do workers gain the crucial skills employers need? And how do employers ensure that America is building a viable workforce? The Horizons Podcast takes topics from the stage at JFF’s annual Horizons conference and carries the conversation forward. Bridges Mansfield interviews special guest Lee Lambert, Chancellor, and CEO of Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. Guest Speakers from the stage at Horizons include: Meghan Hughes, President of Community College of Rhode Island Julie Peller, Executive Director of Higher Learning Advocates John Katzman, CEO of Noodle Maurice Jones, CEO of OneTen Bertina Ceccarelli, CEO of NPower.
Horizons: On the Record Episode 4, Growing Green Jobs–Part 2
Part 2 of Horizons: On the Record Episode 4 is on its way! Be sure to watch “Growing Green Jobs,” a new two-part episode of JFF’s Horizons: On the Record series in which we explore employment and training in a green economy. #JFFHorizons #HorizonsOnTheRecord #ClimateChange #Environment #ClimateAction
Coming Soon! Horizons: On the Record Episode 4, Growing Green Jobs - Part 2
Part 2 of Horizons: On the Record Episode 4 is on its way! Be sure to watch “Growing Green Jobs,” a new two-part episode of JFF’s Horizons: On the Record series in which we explore employment and training in a green economy. #JFFHorizons #HorizonsOnTheRecord #ClimateChange #Environment #ClimateAction
Horizons: On the Record Episode 4, Growing Green Jobs–Part 1
Part one of “Growing Green Jobs,” a new episode of JFF’s Horizons: On the Record series in which we explore employment and training in a green economy.
Coming Soon! Horizons: On the Record Episode 4 – Growing Green Jobs
Horizons: On the Record Episode 4 is on its way! Be sure to watch “Growing Green Jobs,” a new two-part episode of JFF’s Horizons: On the Record series in which we explore employment and training in a green economy. Learn more at https://horizons.jff.org/explore-cont... #JFFHorizons #HorizonsOnTheRecord #ClimateChange #Environment #ClimateAction
Horizons: Without Limits — Coming June 2023
Get ready for Horizons: Without Limits, presented by JFF. June 14-15th, 2023. #JFFHorizons
Season 2, Episode 1: Leading with Fair Chance Hiring
In this episode, host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield and her expert guests explore the economic benefits of Fair Chance Hiring to businesses and the US economy. Each year more companies are committing to hiring people with criminal records, still hundreds of thousands of workers are still being left out of the workforce costing our economy billions. The Horizons podcast takes topics from the stage at JFF’s annual Horizons conference and carries the conversation forward. Bridges Mansfield interviews guests: Lucretia Murphy, Director of JFF’s Center for Justice and Economic Advancement Deepti Rohatgi, Executive Director of Slack for Good Guest speakers from the stage at Horizons include: Ken Oliver, Executive Director of the Checkr Foundation Larry Miller, Former President & current Chairman, Nike Brand Ken Kuwamaura, Talent Acquisition & Manager Effectiveness at Union Pacific Railroad Sean Hosman, Co-Founder Persevere
5 Ways Employers Can Invest In Untapped Immigrant Talent
At Jobs for the Future's Horizons summit, experts from across sectors offered insights on how to engage, support, and upskill an overlooked talent pool—and boost your company’s bottom line.
At Horizons, Moving Toward Equity—Together
Four key steps to an equitable economic future from innovators and leaders at the 2022 summit
Horizons 2022 Closing: See Beyond
Our partners at DearWorld asked attendees at Horizons 2022 in New Orleans: What does it mean to you to SEE BEYOND?
A Secret to His Success: Nike Executive Larry Miller’s Story
From Day 2 of Horizons 2022: Larry Miller, Chairman of the Jordan Advisory Board, Nike Ken Oliver, Executive Director, Checkr.org
Driving Forward with Fair Chance Hiring
From Day 2 of Horizons 2022: Sean Hosman, CEO, Vant4age Ken Kuwmaura, Talent Acquisition, Union Pacific Railroad Ken Oliver, Executive Director, Checkr.org Lucretia Murphy, Associate Vice President, JFF
The White House View on Developing Future Talent
From Day 2 of Horizons 2022: Carmel Martin, Deputy Director for Economic Mobility, White House Domestic Policy Council
Workforce Collaboration: An Equitable Formula
From Day 2 of Horizons 2022: Stephen Goldsmith, Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy, Director of the Data Smart Cities Program, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University Todd Fisher, Program Director American Rescue Plan Funds, U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration Chuck Morse, Executive Director at Thrive New Orleans Empowering People with a Network of Resources and Relationships Sunae Villavaso, Director, Mayor's Office of Workforce Development, Office of Business and External Services
The Entrepreneurial Approach to Solving Problems at Scale
From Day 2 of Horizons 2022: Jena McGregor, Senior Editor, Forbes Hamoon Ekhtiari, CEO, FutureFit AI Thomas Brunskill, CEO and Co-founder, Forage Jason Wang, CEO and Co-founder, FreeWorld Muriel Clauson, CEO and Co-founder, Anthill
Lessons Lived and Learned
From Day 2 of Horizons 2022: Lisette Nieves, President, Fund for the City of New York; Member, JFF Board of Directors Christina Hasaan, Temple University and Hope Center Graduate Frederick Shegog, Founder, The Message LLC Evan Meredith, Climb Hire Graduate
The Humility and Humanity of Our Language: An Ongoing Journey
From Day 2 of Horizons 2022: Lucretia Murphy, Associate Vice President, JFF Kysha Frazier, Vice President of Policy and Strategy, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce Christopher Walter, Chief External Affairs Officer, Center for Employment Opportunities Clair Minson, Founder & Principal Consultant, Sandra Grace LLC
Horizons 2022 Opening with Futurist Dr. Lonny Brooks
During the opening plenary of JFF's 2022 Horizons summit in New Orleans, Dr. Lonny Brooks, Futurist at Institute for the Future discusses our collective imagination to build the future of work and a world in which we can all thrive.
Get Ready for JFF's Horizons 2022 in New Orleans
Horizons is a national platform for transforming the education and workforce systems. In 2022, our annual in-person summit is back in New Orleans! Learn more at https://horizons.jff.org/
Maria Flynn on the Midterm Elections and Gun Violence - Horizons 2022
Maria Flynn, president and CEO of JFF, discusses the upcoming midterm elections and keeping Americans safe from gun violence at Horizons 2022 in New Orleans.
Heather McGhee on Collective Problem-Solving - Horizons 2022
Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, discusses the societal cost of systemic racism in our economy and the power of collective problem-solving with JFFLabs Executive Director Kristina Francis at Horizons 2022 in New Orleans.
Heather McGhee on Intergenerational Wealth at Horizons 2022
Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, discusses the societal cost of systemic racism in our economy and the intergenerational wealth gap with JFFLabs Executive Director Kristina Francis at Horizons 2022 in New Orleans.
Christina Hasaan: Students Are Humans First - Horizons 2022
Recent Temple University graduate Christina Hasaan asks educational institutions and employers to consider the humanity in learners and workers at Horizons 2022 in New Orleans.
LaShana Lewis Challenges Employers to Rethink Degree Requirements - Horizons 2022
At Horizons 2022 in New Orleans, business consultant LaShana Lewis offers a challenge to employers when it comes to using college degrees in their hiring practices.
Nike's Larry Miller on the Wasted Talent in Our Prisons - Horizons 2022
At Horizons 2022 in New Orleans, Larry Miller, Chairman of the Jordan Advisory Board at Nike, says companies will benefit in the long run if they recognize the opportunity of proactively hiring people who have been impacted by the criminal justice system.
Setting the Stage – This is Ours to Solve: See Beyond
At JFF Horizons 2022 in New Orleans, JFF president and CEO Maria Flynn opens up the two-day summit.
The Need for Dual Transformation
Hari Sreenivasan, PBS News Hour (moderator) Rachel Romer Carlson, CEO and Founder, Guild Education Brent Parton, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary/Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor Tyra Mariani, President, Schultz Family Foundation; Member, JFF Board of Directors
A Cross Sector Perspective
From Day 1 of Horizons 2022: Steve Lohr, Reporter, The New York Times (moderator) Emily Allen, Senior Vice President, Programs, AARP Foundation Joe Fuller, Professor, Harvard Business School, and Senior Fellow, Burning Glass Institute Michael Baston, President, Rockland Community College
Universal Language for Learning
From Day 1 of Horizons 2022: Featuring: Scott Pulsipher, President, Western Governors University
Financing the Future of Learning Today
From Day 1 of Horizons 2022: Troy Blackwood, Head of Structured Investments, Google (moderator) Jake Edwards, Vice President, Social Finance Jukay Hsu, CEO, Pursuit Nitzan Pelman, CEO, Climb Hire
A Debate About What Constitutes Success for Lifelong Learning
From Day 1 of Horizons 2022: Meghan Hughes, President, Community College of Rhode Island Bertina Ceccarelli, CEO, NPower Maurice Jones, CEO, OneTen John Katzman, CEO, Noodle Julie Peller, Executive Director, Higher Learning Advocates
Moving to Action on Skills Based Hiring
From Day 1 of Horizons 2022: Byron Auguste, President and Cofounder, Opportunity@Work LaShana Lewis, CEO and Founder, L. M. Lewis Consulting Stacy Eng, Chief Learning and Talent Officer, Chevron Shana DeSmit, Vice President, Regional General Manager, Central U.S., Sam's Club; Member, JFF Board of Directors
From the Business Climate to Climate Resilient Jobs
From Day 1 of Horizons 2022: Jane Oates, President, WorkingNation David Gelles, Reporter, The New York Times
Horizons: Looking Back To See Beyond
Join Jobs for the Future (JFF) as we wrap up the first season of the Horizons podcast, which revisits highlights from our completely virtual 2021 Horizons summit.
Season 1, Episode 8: Horizons: Looking Back to See Beyond
Wrapping up Season 1 of Jobs for the Future’s Horizons podcast series, host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield and JFF President and CEO Maria Flynn take a look back to explore what it means to See Beyond—the theme of JFF’s 2022 Horizons summit, which takes place June 7-8 in New Orleans.
Roadtrip Nation Seeks New Pathways To Economic Advancement
Roadtrip Nation Cofounder and President Mike Marriner, interviewed by JFF
On the Record, Episode 3: On the Record–Career Navigation in a Dynamic Economy, Part 2
Horizons: On the Record–Career Navigation in a Dynamic Economy, a special two-part episode, will focus on the newest critical thinking in education and career navigation. Now more than ever, learners and workers have many options and considerations to weigh throughout the lifespan of their careers.
On the Record, Episode 3: On the Record–Career Navigation in a Dynamic Economy, Part 1
Horizons: On the Record–Career Navigation in a Dynamic Economy, a special two-part episode, will focus on the newest critical thinking in education and career navigation. Now more than ever, learners and workers have many options and considerations to weigh throughout the lifespan of their careers.
Cabinet Secretaries Commit To Scaling Equity And Opportunity
At JFF’s Horizons summit last year, Marty Walsh, Miguel Cardona, and Gina Raimondo started a conversation about building more equitable workforce and education systems.
Season 1, Episode 7: Cabinet Secretaries Commit to Scaling Equity and Opportunity
In this episode of JFF’s Horizons podcast, host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield shares clips from a Horizons 2021 session titled “Advancing Equity and Opportunity at Scale,” in which three members of President Joe Biden’s cabinet — Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo — discussed strategies for developing education, training, and workforce development initiatives that lead to well-paid jobs and economic opportunity for all Americans.
Now Is The Time To Build A Better, More Equitable Workforce Development System
At SXSW EDU in March, JFF brought dozens of innovators and thought leaders together to share ideas about transforming U.S. education and workforce systems.
JFF Opens A Conversation About A New Future For Workers And Learners At SXSW
At Jobs for the Future (JFF), we embraced that message when we designed a special block of programming for SXSW EDU 2022, which took place last month. We had the privilege of bringing together dozens of innovators and thought leaders committed to building a future that works for learners and workers for a series of conversations and presentations focused on one clear message: We must work across sectors to transform this country’s workforce and education systems.
JFF Experts Push To Transform Our Workforce And Education Systems At ASU+GSV 2022
The theme at 2022’s ASU+GSV Summit called for attendees to imagine a new era—one where all people have equal access to the future. JFF showed up ready to meet this challenge and get audiences thinking about where to invest in our workforce and education systems to bridge the gap between where we are today and where we must go.
A Blurred Vision For Good
Let’s be real: Over the past few decades, there have been many attempts to improve the U.S. education system and make it more equitable for all learners. While those efforts may have been sincere, they have not succeeded. Our nation’s education and workforce development systems remain broken and inequitable.
Season 1, Episode 6: Blurring the Lines Between Education and Work
In this episode, host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield explores Jobs for the Future’s bold concept “The Big Blur,” which blends educational pathways across high school, postsecondary education, and career development opportunities to make it easier for all learners to obtain the skills they need to succeed in the workforce, regardless of their zip code or background.
On the Record, Episode 2: Advancing Racial Economic Equity for Black Learners and Workers
Innovative leaders discuss the critical ongoing work to advance racial economic equity for Black learners and workers in education, training, and employment.
Advancing Racial Economic Equity For Black Learners And Workers
In the most recent episode of Horizons: On the Record, innovative leaders discuss the critical ongoing work to advance racial economic equity for Black learners and workers in education, training, and employment.
Future Proof: Leading To An Equitable Economic Recovery
An equitable economic recovery isn’t an aspirational euphemism. It starts with the most basic needs of life for everyone—housing, food, warmth, health care, and a family-sustaining income, for starters. As we head into the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, there are earnest efforts at the local, state, and federal levels to work toward building a fair and just economy. While there’s no magic wand, there are some fundamental principles that leaders in education and workforce are applying.
Season 1, Episode 5: Future Proof: Leading to an Equitable Economic Recovery
This episode of JFF’s Horizons podcast explores strategies for achieving an equitable economic recovery following the pandemic.
AI In Learning And Work: A Double-Edged Sword
The world of artificial intelligence, or AI, is fascinating, intimidating, provocative, and empowering all at once.
Season 1, Episode 4: AI in Learning and Work: A Double-Edged Sword
This episode of JFF’s Horizons podcast explores the exciting yet unpredictable world of artificial intelligence, or AI.
On the Record, Episode 1: How Build Back Better and Infrastructure Bills Can Advance Learners and Workers
In our premiere episode of Horizons: On the Record, we focus on the opportunities available in education and workforce development from Build Back Better and the new infrastructure legislation. We’ll hear from:
How Build Back Better And Infrastructure Bills Can Advance Learners And Workers
In our premiere episode of Horizons: On the Record, we focus on the opportunities available in education and workforce development from Build Back Better and the new infrastructure legislation.
Career Navigation For Future Talent
If you are or were ever a student, you might relate to this description of what routinely happens...
Season 1, Episode 3: Career Navigation for Future Talent
The journey from learning to earning can be ambiguous and unstructured. To complete the trek successfully, you have to engage in what’s often called career navigation. Knowing how to approach career navigation is especially important for young people—our country’s future talent. And that’s the topic JFF addresses in the third episode of our Horizons podcast.
Education Meets Employment: The Need For Collaboration
If there was one unscripted through line at our Horizons summit last June, it was the near...
Season 1, Episode 2: Education Meets Employerment: The Need for Collaboration
In the second episode of the JFF Horizons podcast, Tameshia Bridges Mansfield shares highlights from Horizons presentations that explore the need for the stakeholders in the learn-to-work ecosystem to work together.
Building A More Equitable And Supportive Corporate Community For Black Talent
Let’s face it: It’s autumn 2021, and we’re still grappling with a pandemic that has now lasted a...
Introducing Horizons . . . The Podcast
At JFF, our mission is to drive change in the American workforce, create a more equitable society,...
Season 1, Episode 1: Building a More Equitable and Supportive Corporate Community for Black Talent
In this episode of Horizons, Tameshia Bridges Mansfield shares highlights from two powerful discussions about promoting Black talent in the workplace.
Season 1 Horizons Podcast Trailer
Listen and learn along with host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield, JFF vice president for workforce innovation, as we revisit key themes from the conference like building connection, diversity, and innovation in the workforce.
Reflecting on a Tumultuous Year
Maria Flynn, CEO of JFF, and Byron Auguste, CEO of Opportunity@Work, discuss the economic impacts of COVID-19, with a focus on the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Americans. They reflect on learnings from 2020 -- a year characterized by hardship for many and a reckoning with racial injustice -- and provide framing for the Horizons audience.
On-Ramps and Up-Ramps for Women: Post-pandemic Strategies for (Re)employment and Advancement
Supporting Workers: Insights From the Nation’s Largest Private Employer
Horizons 2021 - Supporting Workers: Insights From the Nation’s Largest Private Employer w. Donna Morris and Shana DeSmit
Building a Corporate Community to Support Black Talent
Willa Seldon, partner at The Bridgespan Group, and Maurice Jones, CEO of OneTen, discuss the launch and progress of OneTen, a new coalition of leading executives who are coming together to reskill, hire, and advance one million Black Americans over the next 10 years. They reflect on how OneTen is meeting the moment, what makes it different from other coalitions, and what the corporate community is doing to support Black talent.
Corporate Commitments to DEI: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Dalila Wilson-Scott, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of Comcast, and Michael Collins, Vice President at JFF, discuss corporate efforts to increase Black, Latinx, and Indigenous worker advancement over the past year. They provide an honest assessment of the impact and permanence of these commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and discuss the big actions necessary to drive systemic change.
How Foundations Can Help Drive Lasting Change
How Foundations Can Help Drive Lasting Change w. Sheri Schultz and Tyra Mariani
Career Navigation: Designing Systems for Smart Decision-Making and Advancement
Leading Through Recovery
Horizons 2021 - Leading Through Recovery w. Brent Hyder, Gayatri Agnew, Linda Ho and Cat Ward
Strengthening Connections From High School to Postsecondary Education and Work
Strengthening Connections From High School to Postsecondary Education and Work w. Kaya Henderson and David Coleman - Horizons 2021
Catalyzing the Ecosystem for Inclusive Economic Recovery
Catalyzing the Ecosystem for Inclusive Economic Recovery w. Lisa Gevelber and Maria Flynn - Horizons 2021
The Grand Challenge of Modernizing How We Train America
The Future of Work Grand Challenge, powered by XPRIZE, MIT Solve, New Profit, and JFF, is a $6M initiative to accelerate solutions that can train and place millions of workers into higher-skilled, higher-wage careers. In May of 2021, the top 15 ideas from the Grand Challenge began to conduct deep testing at American Job Centers in six states to ensure that the new technologies not only train people for new skills and jobs of the future—but also lead to meaningful employment, a living wage, and actual job placement. At Horizons 2021, we'll dig deeper into the "so, what?" behind an initiative like the Grand Challenge, tackling questions like: - What are the on-the-ground learnings of this work? - Who are the people and stories behind the initiative? - How can the Grand Challenge influence employer, funder, policy, etc. behavior — what must be true for that to happen? - How do we use this moment to accelerate a future of work that works for everyone?
The Big Blur: Reimagining the Transitions Between Grade 11, Postsecondary, and Career
Postsecondary credentials are increasingly necessary to secure jobs that pay family-sustaining wages and that provide opportunities for economic advancement. Yet, the path from high school to college and career is highly fragmented and challenging to navigate, particularly for students who are experiencing poverty and students who are Black, Native American, or Latinx. The divisions between systems were built for a bygone time and not up to the task of producing equitable outcomes for the future of work. The nation needs a radical rethinking and restructuring of current transitions and the assumptions that gave rise to them. In this session, JFF Vice President Joel Vargas will present JFF’s vision for a reimagined transition for response from national leaders in K-12, postsecondary, policy, and business.
Designing Inclusive Workplaces for All
Horizons 2021 - Designing Inclusive Workplaces for All
Social Networks to Support Social Mobility
While a postsecondary credential is of high value, it’s not a guarantee of a good career. Access to good jobs in today’s fluid economy increasingly favors the knowledgeable and the well-connected. Many young people understand that “networking” and “making connections” are good things. But they and the adults with whom they interact rarely have explicit knowledge about how social capital is developed and how social networks operate. In this session, JFF's Nancy Hoffman provides an overview of social capital and network theory as they apply to labor-market access. It focuses on the barriers and obstacles that low-income job seekers—even those with newly minted degrees aligned with good jobs—need to understand and overcome, especially when moving into fields where there is little diversity in class, race, ethnicity, or gender.
Talent of Tomorrow: Building Diverse Talent Pipelines
Horizons 2021 - Talent of Tomorrow: Building Diverse Talent Pipelines
Learning as an Experience: Innovative Training for the Future of Work
Horizons 2021 - Learning as an Experience: Innovative Training for the Future of Work
On-Ramps to the Tech Sector: Effective Strategies for Accessing Tech Career Pathways
Entry-level roles within the tech sector are occupations with strong wages and career pathways, but women, communities of color, and individuals without bachelor's degrees have had challenges accessing them. This session will identify key tech career pathways in labor markets nationwide, as well as a range of strong onramps strategies for helping these individuals access these pathways. It will also feature NPower, a provider with proven success preparing and placing participants in tech jobs, highlighting the key elements of their model and tips for replicating it. Finally, the session will provide key takeaways on employers’ talent development needs in entry-level tech occupations.
The Evolving Lifelong Learning Marketplace
Join experts from across the education, corporate and workforce ecosystem as they share and debate their “BIG IDEAS” about the future of lifelong learning and how corporations and universities are converging, collaborating and (at times) competing on new solutions for learners and workers of all ages. Sector leaders will dive into questions about the new lifelong learning marketplace and how diverse stakeholders are collaborating to develop equitable, accessible, and dynamic platforms, solutions and systems for the new consumer-learner. Participants: Peter Cohen, President, University of Phoenix David Sutphen, 2U Janice Burns, Degreed Moderator: Rusty Greiff, JFF
Rethinking Job Quality: A Worker-Led Approach
As the country continues to chart a course for recovery after the confluence of crises in 2020, there has been a new level of reflection on job quality and its role in strengthening our economies. Policymakers are hungry for new solutions; additionally, employers are seeking ways to recruit and retain a skilled, diverse workforce and recognizing that improving job quality is a key lever to increase competitiveness and improve their bottom line. Speakers: Stephen Bediako, Managing Director, Turning Basin Labs Bosko Kante, CEO & Co-Founder, ElectroSpit Patricia Ellis, CEO, Weekend Mobile Notary Alison Schmitt, Associate Director, JFF Marti Shaw, Worker-Researcher, Turning Basin Labs Danny Spitzberg, Lead Researcher, Turning Basin Labs Valerie Wanner, Worker-Researcher, Turning Basin Labs
The Calm Before the Storm: The Transformational Impact of Al on Education
Artificial intelligence is transforming the world of education in two areas - changing work and changing learning. By automating away many jobs, it is transforming the skills and competencies that employers are seeking from workers, creating new opportunities and challenges for educators. It also offers the promise of transforming education itself, bringing a personalized, scalable set of methods to educators to deepen the ways they work with learners. This session will explore the impact of AI on education, and how it might be applied in intentional ways to improve learning for all. Speakers: Cynthia Breazeal, MIT Media Lab Tod Loofbourow, ViralGains Noelle Silver, AI Leadership Institute Greg Toppo, Journalist, Author
Innovation at Community Colleges
Findings from a National Study on Credit and Noncredit Workforce Programs
How an Art Project Prepares You for Jobs That Don’t Exist
Robot choreographer Catie Cuan will share what she learned in an artist-in-resident project in which she applied skills that we humans will need as we transition to increasingly automated work environments. Her presentation reinforces the message that learners and workers can draw on their existing skills and learn new ones to co-exist with robots—college degree not required. Catie will also introduce her forthcoming app that people can use to create their own “art projects” and be part of her ongoing work exploring human-robot interactions.
Learning Through Storytelling: Housing, Recovery, and Resiliency
As the country continues to navigate the road to recovery, solutions must be informed by those most affected. Join us as we celebrate the voices of our “Communities in Recovery” podcast series, which has featured people from across California sharing the deeply personal impacts of the pandemic and resulting economic crisis, as well as their ideas for the future. Along with officially launching our finale episode, this session will feature the experiences and perspectives of three of our incredible guests on driving recovery through infrastructure investments and regional collaborations. Engage with our podcast participants as we discuss how those experiences translate into strategies for inclusive economic recovery and growth.
Horizons Candid Conversations - Senator Tim Kaine and President Anne Kress
Horizons Candid Conversations - Scott Pulsipher and Zakiya Smith-Ellis
Horizons Candid Conversations - Bob Ballard, Rosye Blancas Cloud, and Martha Kanter
Horizons Workshop: Measure of America: Behind U.S. Youth Disconnection Rates-
Horizons Workshop: The Power of Co-Investing in Early-Stage Social Enterprises
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