Marc Freedman

Marc Freedman is Founder and President of Civic Ventures, and co-founder of the Experience Corps. Formerly Vice President of Public/PrivateVentures and a Visiting Fellow of Kings College, University of London, he has served as an advisor to non-profit groups including AARP, the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, the Corporation for National Service, AgeConcern-England, and the YMCA of the USA, and corporations including Pillsbury and Leo Burnett Advertising. His recent book, Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, was an editor's recommendation of the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, hailed by The New York Times as an “inspiring, informative, mind-opening book,” and described by Business Week as “clearly written and full of...likeable characters.” His earlier book, The Kindness of Strangers, was called “the definitive book on the (mentoring) movement” by the Los Angeles Times, and was recently reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press.

Freedman, a frequent commentator in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on National Public Radio, has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament on topics including the aging of American society, youth development, and civic engagement. A high honors graduate of Swarthmore College with an MBA from Yale University, Freedman received the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy, the Archstone Award of the American Public Health Association, and the Maxwell Pollock Award of the Gerontological Society of America. He currently serves on the board of Generations United.

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