Ashton Applewhite
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Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and the co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. An international expert on ageism, she speaks at venues that include the TED mainstage and the United Nations, has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? In 2022, she appeared on HelpAgeUSA’s “60 Over 60” list of Americans “who are making significant contributions to society” and received the prestigious Maggie Kuhn Award from Presbyterian Senior Services as a “visionary leader, author and advocate in combating ageism.”