Dr. Aisha Nyandoro is the CEO of Springboard To Opportunities, a nonprofit organization that serves communities in Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Springboard is focused on helping residents of affordable housing advance themselves in life, school, and work. Springboard’s programs are fundamentally resident-driven and based on the needs of the community to create resources that support and empower families.

Stories featuring Aisha Nyandoro

Group of Ascend Fellows at Wind Cave National Park
My heart is filled with love and gratitude for the courageous community of leaders our Ascend at the Aspen Institute team works with everyday.  And I...
PublicationFebruary 14, 2023
Dr. Aisha Nyandoro, an Ascend Fellow, is one of three winners of the 2022 John P. McNulty Prize.
Media MentionsJuly 18, 2022
I started off the 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival at Aspen Words Book Ball, a passion project of Isa Catto and Daniel Shaw.
Ascend FellowshipJune 25, 2022

Convenings Featuring Aisha Nyandoro

Location: Virtual & In-Person in Washington, DC
Over the course of two days, our discussions focused on bold, equitable, and pragmatic strategies for building prosperity and well-being for all families. Sessions include insights from the latest two-generation (2Gen) family data, examples of...
ConveningApril 11, 2023 – April 12, 2023
Location: Washington, DC & Virtual
How can we embrace and accelerate a new agenda for families? Let us seize this moment to create bold change centering racial, gender, and economic justice, and advance approaches to intergenerational prosperity and well-being that leaves no one out....
ConveningApril 12, 2023
Location: St. Regis Hotel Courtyard (Aspen, CO) & Live Webcast (virtual)
Many places we look, we are stuck. Stuck in old ways and old thinking. We are burdened by zero-sum thinking and surrounded by the word ‘can’t.’ Our best way to get unstuck is to follow and stand with visionary leaders that don’t get...
ConveningJune 28, 2022