What do social enterprise and social entrepreneurship look like in the Golden Years? In this audio lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman takes us on a humorous, personal, and historical look at where the baby boom generation has been, and how it is bringing its social conscience into the future. Her talk offers inspiration as to how we may redefine aging and make meaningful contributions to our families, communities, and country throughout a long lifespan. Goodman spoke at the Innovation Summit, an event organized by Civic Ventures and sponsored by the Center for Social Innovation to celebrate social entrepreneurship over the age of 50.
Ellen Goodman, newspaper columnist, has been with The Boston Globe since 1967. Born on April 11, 1941, in Newton, Mass., Goodman graduated from Radcliffe College, cum laude, in 1963. She began her career at Newsweek, where she worked as a researcher at a time when very few women became writers. In 1965, she landed a job as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press. Two years later, she returned to Boston, where she began writing her column for The Boston Globe. Her column went into syndication in 1976, and it currently is found on the op-ed pages in over 440 newspapers in the United States. She has also worked as a radio and television commentator and taught journalism at Stanford University as the first Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism.
In 1980, Goodman received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. She is the author of Turning Points, about the effect of the changing roles of women on the family, and is coauthor, with Patricia O'Brien, of I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives. In addition, five collections of her columns have been published: Close to Home, At Large, Keeping in Touch, Making Sense, Value Judgments, and Paper Trail.
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