Today's Live Video from the 2013 Aspen Leaders Action Forum: Tuesday, July 30

ASPEN, Colo., July 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Aspen Leaders Action Forum:

Upcoming Live Video from the Aspen Leaders Action Forum:

4:30pm MDT / 6:30pm EDT — The Leadership In Action Series

• In Conversation With Lynda Resnick
  Lynda Resnick, Walter Isaacson
• The Middle East: New Ingredients for Prosperity
  Deema Bibi, Ghassan Hasbani, Yoav Ventura, Jim Pickup
• The Future of U.S. Education
  Cami Anderson, John Deasy, Lillian Lowery, Jean-Claude Brizard

7:30pm MDT / 9:30pm EDT — Announcement of the 2013 John P. McNulty Prize Finalists

Live video is available here: http://www.aspenleaders.org/live.

Tweets from the Forum Yesterday:

@julietasante: @AspenLeadersAct my pledge - To use the Mobile phone as a tool for education for the youth of sub-Saharan Africa

@DeleOlojede: Roosevelt: 'The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat...' @AspenLeadersAct

@HildeVasquez: Thinking about acting is not enough we need to step up @AspenLeadersAct I am now restless with that thought

@Bgoffdallas: @AspenLeadersAct I will deliver testing/diagnostic, classroom instruction for Learning Different Children. Over 20% of our population is LD

@juliegichuru: We revisit one of my favourite texts of all time #MartinLutherKingJr #LetterfromBirminghamJail @AspenLeadersAct

Full schedule of live video available here. Full-session video and clips will be featured on the Aspen Institute's YouTube channel. Follow the Action Forum on Facebook and Twitter at @AspenLeadersAct with the hashtag #MyAspenAction.

Major funding provided by the RESNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Additional sponsorship provided by: David M. Rubenstein, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and 10,000 Women, Visa, Inc., The John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation, Barry-Wehmiller Company, Margot and Tom Pritzker, Robert K. Steel, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc., The Rodel Foundations, and The Liberty Fellowship.

The Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) is a growing, worldwide community of entrepreneurial leaders from business, government, and the nonprofit sector — currently, more than 1,600 "Fellows" from 46 countries — who share a commitment to enlightened leadership and to using their extraordinary creativity, energy, and resources to tackle the foremost societal challenges of our times. All share the common experience of participating in the Henry Crown Fellowship or one of the dozen Aspen Institute leadership initiatives it has inspired in the United States, Africa, Central America, India, China, and the Middle East.

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It also has offices in New York City and an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.

SOURCE Aspen Leaders Action Forum