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OldSchool @ Work Alliance Now Accepting Members

We need to build an alliance with a diverse set of skills and experiences.Join the OldSchool @ Work Alliance To End Ageism In the Workplace - ChangingAging

by, Kyrié Carpenter, Managing Editor, Ashton Applewhite, Ryan Backer and Sheila Callaham

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Research shows that 75% of adults 60 and older — and 65% of those between ages 45 and 59 — say they believe their age puts them at a disadvantage when looking for work. It’s worse for women. According to a survey of 1,550 women–786 who were women of color–The Riveter reports that 58% of the women thought their “identities and/or physical attributes impact their experiences at work” and that age discrimination was a bigger impediment to workplace equity than gender or race.

We’re starting the OldSchool@WorkAlliance to change this. Along with the incalculable human costs, both financial and to our health and human potential, this discrimination diminishes workplace innovation and forces people to take social security earlier than they otherwise would. 

We hope you’ll help us get started.  

What is [email protected]? 

[email protected] will be a collective whose members will establish best practices for holding companies accountable for rectifying systemic bias and making age a criterion for diversity. Our goal is to ensure accountability by providing the tools and metrics to measure (and report) respective employers’ progress and results. 

We hope to benchmark and report organizational policies and practices that support age-inclusivity, much like the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index benchmarks for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-inclusivity. And to create resources to make the working world more age-diverse and inclusive.

To achieve this goal, we need to build an alliance with a diverse set of skills and experiences—from leadership and fundraising to research and data analytics (and everything in between). Through the online application, members can indicate how much time they can volunteer and the ways they want to help.

Through this open invitation, we expect to amass a robust group of activists with the skills and gumption needed to create an iterative system for measuring age inclusivity, and then continually finding and bringing about tools and influence to improve the results. 

In other words, we plan on building a Kick-Ass-Expose-Ageism-Alliance!

Are You In?

To join the collective, fill out this brief application.

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Published to: Ageism on December 12, 2019

About the Authors

  • Kyrié Carpenter, Managing Editor

    Kyrié’s passion for story has lead her to a career in film, studies in Depth Psychology, and ultimately to her work with aging. She has her masters in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her thesis, PLAYful Aging: Embracing the Inevitable, explored the Anti-Aging myth in America and major neurocognitive disorders/ dementia as an embodiment of the trickster archetype and its facilitation of growth on a cultural level via the integration of elders into American society. Kyrié did her practicum in San Francisco at Age Song/ Pacific Institute's Gerontological Wellness program. She continues to learn shares her observations through work with clients as a coach and counselor, speaking at conferences and workshops and through writing. Skillshare Classes: Available Here Website: www.croneintraining.com Twitter: @CroneTraining

  • Ashton Applewhite

    The author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton Applewhite is an internationally recognized expert on ageism. She speaks widely at venues that have included the TED main stage and the United Nations and is a leading spokesperson for a movement to mobilize against discrimination on the basis of age.

  • Ryan Backer

    Ryan Backer is a white, non-binary, European-American Age Activist with an undergraduate degree in Gerontology (the bio-psycho-social study of aging). While working with their mentor Ashton Applewhite, they aim to eradicate ageism within an intersectional framework. Ryan identifies as an Older Person in Training, has been on this social-justice path since 2013, and has been aging ever since 1988.

  • Sheila Callaham

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  1. Natasha says

    December 18, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” ~ Victor Hugo
    #EndAgeism #AgeingIsLiving

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