Work for a 100-year Life

In this three-episode interview series, Mitchell Stevens, co-director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, joins award-winning journalist Ramona Schindelheim to explore the role that work, skills, and economic opportunity play in helping people live longer lives with health, purpose, financial security, and engagement at every stage.

Drawing on findings from CWI Works’ Longevity Workforce Outlook and cutting-edge research from the Stanford Center on Longevity, the series challenges conventional ideas about how careers, workplaces, and opportunities should evolve as lives grow longer and examines a fundamental question: If longer lives are becoming the norm, how must we rethink work and opportunity so people can continue to learn, contribute, connect, and thrive throughout them?

Watch Episode 1: The New Career Journey, below and stay tuned for Episode 2: Making Longer Lives Work and Episode 3: Work Has an Age Problem.

Mitchell Stevens

Mitchell Stevens is Professor of Education at Stanford, where he convenes the Learning Society project and the Pathways Network. He studies the history, finance, and politics of postsecondary education in the United States and worldwide. The author of award-winning studies of home education and selective admissions, his most recent books are Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education and Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era. He is Co-Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has written scholarly articles for a variety of academic journals and editorial for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other venues.

Ramona Schindelheim

Ramona Schindelheim is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and storyteller who has worked in network, cable, and local television news and digital media. She writes about initiatives, programs, and people preparing workers for quality jobs that provide economic stability and mobility in her monthly LinkedIn newsletter, The Future of Work(ers). Ramona also hosts Birds & Nerds, a podcast exploring the sometimes hidden connection between birds and the bigger world around us.  You can connect with Ramona through LinkedIn, her website, and her Birds & Nerds podcast.