June 20, 2025

Festival Fellow Spotlight

Meet Devshi Mehrotra, a 2025 Festival Fellow and the co-founder and CEO of JusticeText. Her startup is using AI to help public defenders better serve their low-income clients and promote accountability and transparency within the criminal justice system. “Most solutions have been designed to serve systems that reinforce incarceration, rather than the people most impacted by it,” she says. Before the Festival, we caught up wth Mehrotra about how JusticeText is transforming legal technology and supporting policy reform across 20 U.S. states. 

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What Matters Most to Americans Today?

We’re thrilled to announce the inaugural American Values Index, a landmark research initiative between the Aspen Ideas Festival and Gallup. We’ll unveil key findings next week at the 2025 Festival, so stay tuned!

For press interested in getting embargoed results, please email the Aspen Institute’s Director of Media Relations Jon Purves.

Are We Alone Out There?

For many people, looking toward the stars comes with existential questions about our place in the universe and the meaning of life among the cosmos. It also begs the question: Are humans the only life form out there? And, if there are other intelligent life forms, how do we prove they exist? Journalist and historian Garrett Graff leads a conversation with former congressman and the 14th administrator of NASA Bill Nelson, American Museum of Natural History senior research scientist Jackie Faherty, and astrophysicist and theoretical cosmology professor Paul Sutter. These multidisciplinary experts discuss the latest in the quest to find life beyond Earth.

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