Alexandra "Xan" Nowakowski, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Geriatrics/Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine
Vice Chair, Council on Diversity and Inclusion
Florida State University College of Medicine
Ashton Applewhite
Co-Founder, Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse
Speaker and Activist
Voice of "Yo, Is this Ageist?"
Austin Oswald, PhD, MPhil, MA, BSc, CTRS
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Baozhen Luo, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology, Western Washington University
Professor, Global Health, Duke Kunshan University in China
Barbara Bowers, PhD, RN
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair, Advancing Excellence in Long Term Care Collaborative
Associate Editor, The Gerontologist
Benjamin Veghte, PhD, MPA
Director, Washington Cares Fund, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Bob Blancato, MPA
President of Matz, Blancato and Associates
Brooke Hollister, PhD
Research Leader, Center for Care Research, South, University of Agder, Norway
Associate Professor, UCSF Institute for Health & Aging
Catherine Bliss, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology, Rutgers University
Christopher Phillipson, PhD
Professor, Sociology and Social Gerontology, Univeristy of Manchester
Deptuy Director, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, United Kingdom
Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Policy & Global Health, York University, Canada
Darlingtina Esiaka, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow & Director of Community Engagement, Aging & Brain Health Alliance, Rutgers University
Founder, Black in Gerontology and Geriatrics
Dean Birkenkamp, MS
Senior Editor, Routledge Publishers
Dorothy Roberts, JD
Professor of Law & Sociology, George A. Weiss University
Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
Professor, Africana Studies
Director, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Greenfield, PhD
Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers University
Erica Solway, PhD, MSW, MPH
Associate Director, National Poll on Healthy Aging
Manager, Signature Initiatives and Partnerships, University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
Ernest Gonzales, PhD, MSSW
Associate Professor and Director, Master of Social Work Program, New York University Silver School of Social Work
Director, The Center for Health and Aging Innovation
Co-Lead, American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare's Grand Challenge on Advancing Long, Healthy, and Productive Lives
Ernie Powell
Lead Staff, Social Security Works
Organizer and Advocate, AARP California
Ian Johnson, LCSW, PhD(c)
Univerisity of Washington
Member, Harborview Homeless Palliative Care Team
Jacqueline Angel, PhD
Wilbur J. Cohen Professor of Health and Social Policy and Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Jan Baars, PhD
Emeritus Professor, Philosophy of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Professor, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jason Flatt, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Nevada
Principal Investigator, Rainbows of Aging
Jean Accius, PhD
Senior Vice President, Global Thought Leadership, AARP
Member, National Association of Corporate Directors
Executive Leadership Council Fellow
Jill Quadagno, PhD
Professor Emerita, Florida State University
Research Associate, Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy
Judith Heumann, MPH
Board Member, American Association of People with Disabilities, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Humanity and Inclusion
Founding member, Berkely Center for Independent Living
Co-Founder, World Institute on Disability
Kevin Prindiville, JD
Executive Director, Justice in Aging
Board of Directors, American Society on Aging
Lara Sheehi, PsyD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology, George Washington University
Secretary and President Elect, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Association
Co-Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality and CounterSpace in Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society
Laurent Reyes, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
Activist Scholar, Our Way of Life Archive
Leanne J. Clark-Shirley, MGS, PhD
Vice President, Programs & Thought Leadership, American Society on Aging
Marian (Pi-Ju) Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Faculty Associate, Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University
Co-Chair, National Adult Protective Services Association's Research-to-Practice Interest Group
Maya Rockeymoore-Cummings, PhD
Founder & CEO, Global Policy Solutions
Mel Jeske, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago
Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Professor, Department of Child, Family, and Population Nursing, University of Washington
Intermin Director, Center for Anti-Racism in Nursing, University of Washington
Board Member, Black Mama Matter Alliance
Editor in Chief, Health Equity Journal
Oliver Rollins, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Paul Kleyman, BA
National Coordinator and Co-Founder, Journalists Network on Generations
Senior Advisor, Aging Fellows Program, Gerontological Society of America
Rabbi Michael Lezak
Social Justice Director, Center for Social Justice, Glide Memorial Church
Renée Beard, PhD
Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross
Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Aging Studies
Robert Turner, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University
Sarah Canham, PhD, FGSA
Associate Professor, College of Social Work, College of Architecture and Planing, University of Utah
Associate Director, University of Utah Health Interprofessional Education
Shellae Versey, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Fordham University
Sophie Yarker, PhD
Co-Deputy Director, Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group
Research Associate, Sociology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Tam Perry, PhD, MA, MSSW
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Wayne State University
Teresa Ghilarducci, PhD
Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research
Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
Timothy Diamond, PhD
Institutional Ethnographer and Writer
Tine Buffel, PhD
Director, Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group
Professor, Sociology & Social Gerontology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Zaire Sims, MSW
Service Coordinator, Meals on Wheels of Southwest Ohio & Norther Kentucky
Fellow, American Society on Aging RISE Program