A Summer without Organized Sports?... with Jon Solomon (Aspen Institute) // Summer of COVID

Rediscovering Play

15-07-2020 • 33 mins

In this episode, our guest in Jon Solomon of the Aspen Institute's Project Play. Jon is a journalist, storyteller and communicator whose work supports the Sports & Society Program’s mission to convene leaders, facilitate dialogue and inspire solutions that help sport serve the public interest. He oversees the program’s communications platforms, edits and writes reports, develops original content, and manages select projects within Project Play.

Jon talks to us about the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on organized youth sports this summer, and the ways that communities and schools are / aren't figuring out ways to get back to regularly scheduled team sport activities for kids.

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