Скачать или смотреть 🎙 Building Bridges Across America: The American Exchange Project with David McCullough III

In this special episode of Hope Is My Middle Name, host ‪@KateTucker‬ sits down in Boston with David McCullough III, co-founder and CEO of the American Exchange Project (AEP), to learn how AEP is building bridges across America, one student, one high school, one hometown at a time.

Building Bridges Across America: The American Exchange Project with David McCullough III, Hope Is My Middle Name, Season 4, Episode 2

Do you think America is more divided than ever? Do you feel we’re more different than we are alike? What would happen if you took a free week-long trip to a community vastly different from your own? And then brought folks from that far off town to your neighborhood?

These are the questions we’re exploring on the new episode of Hope Is My Middle Name with the fabulous David McCullough III, co-founder and CEO of the American Exchange Project.

Through week-long summer youth exchanges, AEP invites high school seniors to experience life in communities far different from their own. These experiences foster connection, upend stereotypes, and restore a sense of ownership and pride of place as youth cross the threshold into independence.

It all started with a road trip David took in college, where he realized that Americans were less polarized than we might think, and that adventuring together could be an antidote to division. Fast forward just a few years after the launch of American Exchange Project and they’ve already sent over 1,000 students to 75 towns in 36 states.

David envisions the American Exchange Project as a civic coming of age ritual, something that will eventually become as intrinsic to the high school experience as the senior prom. And in Jonathan’s Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, he references AEP as an antidote to anxiety.

Join Kate Tucker as she sits down with David McCullough III for a powerful conversation on bringing people together across divides, establishing a civic coming of age ritual, and trading anxiety for adventure.

00:00 Different Perspectives, Same Conclusion
00:43 Kate Tucker Introduces David McCullough III
02:36 Meet David McCullough III
03:34 Growing Up with a Spirit of Aloha
06:55 From Hawaii to Massachusetts
08:48 Influence of a Renowned Grandfather
12:12 Discovering the American Dream
13:47 The Road Trip that Changed Everything
19:45 Lessons on Prejudice and Polarization
26:09 Founding the American Exchange Project
29:50 Engaging Teenagers on Polarization
30:32 Growing Up in a Bubble
32:56 Historical Context of Youth Exchange Programs
35:22 How The American Exchange Project Works
39:18 Transformative Experiences
44:04 Removing Hierarchy to Bring People Together
47:20 Addressing Mental Health through Connection
52:20 The Next American Civic Coming of Age Ritual
57:52 Reasons to Hope: People
58:35 Credits and Thanks

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Hosted and executive produced by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.

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