Experience Summary
I received my Ph.D. in Social Gerontology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2009. During my graduate training, and in the year following, I worked for Scripps Gerontology Center as a researcher. I completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Carolina Program for Health and Aging Research (CPHAR) at the Institute on Aging at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August, 2012. I am currently working at Stanford Center on Longevity.
My expertise centers on the factors that shape active engagement in later life, broadly encompassing two areas: (1) older adults’ capacity to be active; and (2) the patterns and outcomes of active engagement behaviors. The goal of my research is to identify ways to increase older adults’ abilities and opportunities to participate in society, especially with regard to extending capacity to actively engage during later life.
I completed two instructors manuals for sociology of aging texts, and published an upper division undergraduate/master's level text book on active aging in 2011 with Springer Publishers.
I completed postdoctoral training in the area of health and aging, and am an expert on statistical analysis of the Health and Retirement Study. I used and have used SPSS and Stata for statistical analysis and can provide training in longitudinal analysis of datasets.
Teaching Style
I have taught three courses at the higher education level (sociology courses focused on aging). I taught private trumpet lessons for 15 years along with free-lancing and conducting.
My Hobbies
I have taught advanced and intermediate vinyasa-based yoga for 8 years.