by Diverse Elders | Apr 11, 2019
In November of 2017, we met Betty (she/her/hers) and liz thomson (they/them/theirs) through the interview on November 20, 2017. They had just moved in together that fall and were adjusting to their new apartment in Greenwood, Indiana. Liz, who is an adoptee and...
by Jenna McDavid | Apr 1, 2019
It’s April, which means that the American Society on Aging’s 2019 Aging in America Conference (AiA19) is right around the corner! The Diverse Elders Coalition and our five member organizations will be on the ground in New Orleans from April 15th through...
by Jenna McDavid | Mar 18, 2019
Fifty years ago this June, the global movement for LGBTQ rights was born at New York City’s Stonewall Inn, and the people who started that movement — first a riot, then a revolution — are responsible for the access that lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
by Diverse Elders | Mar 15, 2019
by Kerry Hannon. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. I recently attended a Milken Institute Future of Health Summit panel in Washington, D.C. called Race, Gender, and Work: The Economics of Healthy Aging. The experts’ insights whizzed across a range of...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 25, 2019
by Alyssa Tulabut, Training Manager, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC). Stories have been described as “the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal.” Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote, “The human mind is a story processor, not a logic...
