Author and activist Ashton Applewhite has been recognized by the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks, speaks widely at venues that have ranged from the TED mainstage to the United Nations around the world, has written for Harper's and Playboy, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? In 2016, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. In 2015 she was included in Salt magazine's list of the world's 100 inspiring women who are committed to social change. At the beginning of her career, she was an Editorial Assistant at St. Martin's Press.

Books by Ashton Applewhite

This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

by Ashton Applewhite - Nonfiction, Sociology

In our youth-obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. THIS CHAIR ROCKS traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life.

And I Quote: The Definitive Collecton of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (Revised Edition)

Ashton Applewhite, William R. Evans III and Andrew Frothingham - Nonfiction, Reference