Applewhite, Ashton: - Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well .
She speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, has written for Harper\'s , the Guardian , and the New York Times ; has been recognized by the New York Times , the New Yorker , National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism; and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist ? In 2022 the Decade of Healthy Aging, a UN + WHO collaboration, named Ashton one of the Healthy Aging 50: fifty leaders transforming the world to be a better place to grow older..
A co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse, Ashton is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of Ageism and to dismantle it.
Applewhite, Ashton: - Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well
