About this event
As America becomes more age-diverse, higher education faces both a challenge and an opportunity: how to prepare students for success in our multigenerational society and how to remake institutions to serve people of all ages and life stages.
This webinar explores the emerging movement of cogeneration on college campuses, how older and younger are coming together to solve community problems, expand access to opportunity, and build stronger, more connected communities. You’ll hear insights from a new study by CoGenerate: Can Intergenerational Connection Heal Us? and stories from campuses reimagining how students, older adults, and community partners can collaborate with purpose.
From student-led initiatives to institution-wide strategies, discover how colleges are embedding age-diverse connection into courses, housing, travel, and civic partnerships. Whether you're a student, faculty member, or community innovator, this is your invitation to explore why generations belong together—and how your campus can lead the way.
You’ll also hear from leaders across the country championing this work and learn how to get involved in the Campus CoGenerate Affinity Network, a growing community of leaders advancing innovation in higher education.
You’ll Learn:
- Why cogeneration matters in higher education now
- How campuses are bridging generational divides to spark connection and innovation
- What’s possible when institutions embed cogeneration across campus life
- How to join a national network rethinking the role of generations in education
Who should attend?
This event is free and open to members and non-members

What does this mean? This virtual event is more informational with minimal interactivity. Feel free to have this webinar on in the background while you eat lunch or check email!
- Only facilitators and guest speakers will be seen on camera
- You can submit questions by typing them into the Zoom Q&A feature
- This event will focus on information sharing, presentations, or panel discussions
Meet The Speakers:

Markya Reed
Ph.D. candidate in Education
Morgan State University
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Markya Reed is a student affairs professional at Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. candidate in education at Morgan State University. She’s passionate about bringing people together – students, faculty, staff, and administrators – to strengthen civic engagement initiatives and create cultures of constructive dialogue. Before her work in higher ed, Markya served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica (2018-2020), where she worked alongside communities to develop sustainable youth programs focused on enhancing student voice and developing critical life skills. As a CoGen Impact Fellow, she works to transform higher education into a nexus for intergenerational connection and collaboration.

Lindsey Beagley
Senior Director of Lifelong University Engagement
Arizona State University
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Lindsey Beagley is a national leader in reimagining the role of higher education in an aging society. As Senior Director of Lifelong University Engagement at Arizona State University (ASU), she advances intergenerational learning models that embed older adults into the fabric of the university. Her work is centered on creating inclusive, multigenerational environments where learners of all ages can thrive—most notably through initiatives like Mirabella at ASU, the nation's first certified University-based Retirement Community.
A Phoenix native and proud triple Sun Devil, Beagley holds bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Spanish, a Master of Public Administration in Nonprofit Management, and is currently pursuing her Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership and Innovation. Her career reflects a deep commitment to connecting generations in mutually beneficial ways to strengthen community resilience, beginning with service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras (2006–2008) and later founding HomeShare Arizona, which helped older homeowners rent out a room in their home to college students.
Beagley’s leadership has been recognized with numerous honors, including the 2025 Intergenerational Innovation Award from Generations United, the 2024 Best Practices Award and 2023 Innovation Award from Leading Age Arizona, and inclusion in the Phoenix Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list in 2021. Her work has been featured in international news outlets including Financial Times, The Economist, PBS Newshour, BBC Worldwide, AARP, Forbes, Kiplinger, and the New York Times.
She is passionate about designing systems that engage and connect people across the life course, and leveraging the full capacity of universities to create lifelong learners.

Eunice Lin Nichols
Co-CEO
CoGenerate
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Eunice Lin Nichols is Co-CEO of CoGenerate. She has spent more than two decades bringing older and younger generations together to bridge divides and solve problems, including leading CoGenerate’s innovation portfolio, serving as national campaign director for the Generation to Generation initiative, running The Purpose Prize (now a program of AARP), and scaling Experience Corps from one neighborhood school in San Francisco into a thriving Bay Area program helping thousands of kids read by third grade.
Eunice has been featured on the inaugural Eames Institute Curious 100 List, recognized as a Next Avenue Influencer in Aging, and is a graduate of the Billions Institute Fellowship for Large-Scale Change. She is also a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for advancing innovative and effective solutions to California’s most significant issues. She also serves on the steering committees of Voices for National Service and More Perfect’s Democracy Goal on National Service & Volunteering, as well as the Milken Institute’s Future of Aging advisory board.

Karen Morris
Co-Founder of The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project and Associate Professor in the Department of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Karen Morris is a lesbian mother, cultural anthropologist, and co-founder (with Adam Greteman) of The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Karen is interested in experimental, community-based collaborative research, pedagogy, and social justice work. Her current work explores intergenerational connection between LGBTQ+ people, with a focus on care, kinship, aging, and activism.
Karen loves baking, being in nature, and playing pranks on people. She and her partner, Christina, are the proud parents of two awesome teenagers.

CoGenerate Report: Can Intergenerational Connection Heal Us?
This report is about the critical role community organizations play in bringing generations together to reduce social isolation and loneliness.
Questions? Get in touch with Daniel Lopez, Campus CoGenerate Project Consultant at campuscogenerate@compact.org