CHALLENGING AGE-BASED PREJUDICES || ASHTON APPLEWHITE

🎙 In this episode of #LifeisaSacredJourney, our host, Micheal Pope, will be joined by Ashton Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. Ashton has been recognized by the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks, has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? In 2016, she joined PBS site Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. Ashton speaks widely at venues that have ranged from universities and community centers to the TED mainstage and the United Nations. She is a leading spokesperson for a movement to mobilize against discrimination based on age.