Part of Influencers in Aging
2015 Influencers in Aging
Updated: November 10, 2020
Update on Ina Jaffe
Additional Influencers of 2015:
- Sudipto Banerjee: Research associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
- Barbara Beskind: Design at IDEO
- Dan Buettner: Author of Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
- Donna Butts: Executive Director of Generations United
- Glen Campbell: Music legend and contributor to Alzheimer's education
- Peter Cappelli - Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Center for Human Resources and a management professor at The Wharton School
- Laura L. Carstensen: Professor, author and founder of the Stanford Center for Longevity
- Roz Chast: New Yorker cartoonist and author
- Sen. Susan Collins: Maine Senator
- Barbara Coombs Lee: President of the nonprofit Compassion & Choices
- Joseph F. Coughlin: Director of the MIT AgeLab
- Tobey Dichter: Founder and unpaid chief executive officer of the nonprofit Generations on the Line
- Nora Dowd Eisenhower: Assistant director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Older Americans
- Vickie Elisa: President of Mothers’ Voices Georgia
- Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel: Oncologist, author and medical ethicist.
- Katy Fike: Co-founder of Aging 2.0.
- James Firman: President and chief executive officer of the National Council on Aging (NCOA)
- Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen: Professor of Social Work, University of Washington; director of the Institute for Multigenerational Health
- Marc Freedman: Founder and chief executive officer of Engore.org
- Dr. Linda P. Fried: Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
- Lisa Genova: Author of Still Alice and Inside the O'Briens
- Kathy Greenlee: Assistant secretary for aging at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and administrator of the Administration for Community Living (ACL)
- Jennie Chin Hansen: Former American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Chief Executive Officer
- Rodney Harrell: Director of livable communities, AARP
- Carrie Hessler-Radelet: Director of the U.S. Peace Corps
- Cindy Hounsell: The founder and president of the nonprofit group WISER (Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement
- Cynthia Hutchins: Director of Financial Gerontology for Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- J. Mark Iwry: Senior adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury and deputy assistant secretary (tax policy) for retirement and health policy at the U.S. Treasury Department
- Ina Jaffe: Veteran political and arts reporter
- Cynthia Kenyon: Vice President of aging research at Calico
- Laurence J. Kotlikoff: Economics professor at Boston University and co-author of the bestseller, Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
- Dr. Joanne Lynn: Director of the Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness, Altarum Institute
- Kevin J. Mahoney: Gerontologist and director of the National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services at Boston College
- Dr. Bruce Miller: Director of the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco
- Larry Minnix: President and CEO of LeadingAge
- Dr. Laura Mosqueda: Co-director of the National Center on Elder Abuse
- Alicia H. Munnell: Director of the Center of Retirement Research at Boston College
- Bernard Osher: Philanthropist and visionary
- Dr. Philip Pizzo: Creator and founding director of The Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute
- Ai-jen Poo: Author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America and labor activist
- Lauren Stiller Rikleen: President of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership and a visiting scholar at the Boston College Center for Work & Family
- Ofer Sharone: Assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Maria Shriver: Former network news correspondent and anchor for CBS and NBC, and former First Lady of California
- Felipe Sierra: Director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aging
- Ken Smith: Senior research scholar and director of the Mobility Division at the Stanford Center on Longevity
- Lester Strong: Chief executive officer of AARP Experience Corps and an AARP vice president
- Nora Super: Leader of 2015 White House Conference on Aging
- Dr. Bill Thomas: Founder of The Green House Project
- Barbara Vacarr: Director of the Encore Higher Education Initiative at Encore.org
