Caroline Adams has been on staff with GSA since 2019 and manages the Governance, Awards, and Fellows programs. 

Rita X. Hu is an Assistant Professor at UChicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (formerly known as School of Social Services and Administration). Her research focuses on fostering an inclusive society for all ages. She examines how ageism is internalized and manifested across the lifespan, adversely impacting health. Her current work focuses on understanding the intersectionality between age and other identities, life experiences, and social and physical environments, as well as investigating the consequences of ageism on health through psychosocial pathways. She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology and Social Work from the University of Michigan and her BA from UC Berkeley.

Christina X. Mu received her PhD in Aging Studies from the University of South Florida in 2024 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on sleep health and pain in midlife and later life. She has been a proud member of GSA since 2018 and had the honor of serving as the GSA O'Neill and Hyer Policy Intern in 2023.

Abbey is a fifth-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a part of the Mechanisms Underlying Neurocognitive Aging (MUNA) lab where her research centers on understanding how environmental factors and neighborhood conditions contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. She is particularly interested in leveraging historical U.S. census data to capture life course neighborhood exposures and employing mixed-methods approaches to integrate both subjective and objective experiences of neighborhood environments.

Dr. Eun Young Choi is a Postdoctoral Associate in Gerontology at the University of Southern California. She previously completed postdoctoral training in Public Health at New York University and holds a PhD in Gerontology. Her research broadly investigates the environmental determinants of health, with a particular focus on older adult and immigrant populations. Dr. Choi’s active research program examines the role of extreme weather events in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), aiming to elucidate the biopsychosocial processes that contribute to individual differences in risk. She also investigates Asian health disparities, focusing on how patterns of Asian residential segregation influence mental and cardiometabolic health outcomes. Her work has been supported by multiple NIH-funded awards and the Alzheimer’s Association. Committed to innovative, interdisciplinary research, Dr. Choi seeks to inform evidence-based public health strategies to reduce health disparities and improve population health.

Dr. Mroz is a social-behavioral scientist who specializes in adult development and aging. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Florida with a graduate certificate in Gerontology. Following her graduate training, Dr. Mroz completed three years of postdoctoral training in the Section of Geriatrics, Yale School of Medicine. She is a mixed-methods researcher, and her program of research focuses on developing interventions, resources, and solutions for individuals, their family members, and their care teams as they navigate serious illness (e.g., dementia, cancer), end of life, and bereavement. Dr. Mroz conducts research in partnership with a wide network of other scientists, with clinicians, with community care organizations, and with people with lived experience.