Excited to finally share this news! I am a CoGen Voices Fellow! Four years ago, I started volunteering at the senior center my grandmother attended. At the time, I didn’t know there was a term for what I was experiencing through conversations, shared activities, and friendships with older adults. I just knew those connections mattered to me. A year ago, I started Golden Connections because I wanted other teens to experience that too. I saw how much could happen when different generations were brought into the same space, not just as volunteers and recipients, but as people mutually learning from each other. As one of the youngest members of this cohort, I’m really grateful to CoGenerate for creating a movement and having the vision to bring younger and older people together to build real change. And forever thankful to my first teachers, my two grandmothers, who taught me what intergenerational connection looked like, long before I knew there was a word for it. Meet the fellows: https://lnkd.in/gySaHea7
We're thrilled to introduce the 21 participants of the CoGen Voices Fellowship, a multigenerational cohort of civic leaders, aged 15 to 81, committed to spreading a much-needed vision of intergenerational collaboration — both what it looks like and what it can achieve. This spring and summer, they'll work together to hone their public voices and tell stories that make the case for cogeneration in op-eds, social media, podcasts, and more. https://lnkd.in/evtS6NtA
Congratulations Leena Albinali! Amazing.
Congrats! Excited to see all the great work you’ll do
Congrats, Leena! You're a trailblazer.
You are such an inspiration Leena Albinali. I remember when your work with the elderly was just getting started in our Find Your Qibla program. Look at you today! MashAllah.