Dr. Tamara A. Baker is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is President of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), and a GSA Fellow, founder and co-convener of GSA’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Collaborative Interest Group, and PI of the HBCU Aging Conference. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Ethnicity & Health, and has served on several national and international committees including the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric and Gerontology Advisory Committee, NIH’s Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee, and NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Pain Strategic Plan’s Executive Committee. Her professional background has evolved into research agenda focusing on predictors and outcomes of chronic pain and health disparities among older Black adults. She is also active in establishing pathway programs increasing the gerontology/geriatrics medicine workforce.

Helene H. Fung is a Professor and former Associate Dean (Student Affairs) of Social Science, former chairperson at the Dept of Psychology, the Executive Director of the Centre for Positive Social Science and a Deputy Director of the Institute of Ageing, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She examines socioemotional ageing across cultures. She is included on a list of the top 2% of working scientists world-wide and is ranked among Top Scientists in Psychology in China by Research.com. She is a senior associate editor for the Australian Journal of Psychology, and an associate editor for Cognition and Emotion.

Denis Gerstorf is Full Professor and chair of Developmental Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin. As lifespan developmental scholar, he is particularly interested in better understanding how our everyday lives and the long-term developmental trajectories we are on are often closely intertwined with and co-regulated by the contexts in which we live. He also holds an appointment as Fellow at the German Socio-Economic Panel, one of the longest-running national surveys worldwide. Gerstorf serves as Editor of the Behavioral Sciences section of Gerontology and has been for many years in that role for Psychology and Aging and the International Journal of Behavioral Development. Gerstorf is Fellow of the GSA and is the chairperson of the interdisciplinary, multi-institutional consortium of the Berlin Aging Study-II (https://www.base2.mpg.de/en). His work has received numerous acknowledgements (e.g., Early Career Achievement Awards from both APA and GSA, Innovative Publication Award of GSA).

Karl Pillemer, PhD, is the Hazel E. Reed Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also the founding Director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging, which is devoted to using research to improve the care and quality of life of older people. Over his career, he has studied the social integration of older people, exploring how they can maintain positive family and social relationships in later life. His current research examines climate environmental activism among older people, with a focus on developing new methods oi engaging retirees for climate change action. Over the past decade, he has conducted a set of interview studies that focus on the practical advice of older people for younger generations, and has created and tested an intervention program (Building a Community Legacy Together) based on this research.

Hans-Werner Wahl is a former Professor of Psychological Aging Research and currently Seniorprofessor at Network Aging Research, Heidelberg University. His research activities include the role of subjective aging as well as the physical-technological environments for aging well, adaptational processes, and conceptual issues in aging research. He is the founding editor of the European Journal of Ageing (together with Dorly Deeg), consulting editor of Psychology and Aging, and an editorial board member of The Gerontologist. Dr. Wahl is also a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) since 2002. He has received the 2009 M. Powell Lawton Award of the GSA, the 2019 IAGG-ER Advanced Scholar Award: Socio-Behavioral Sciences, the 2020 BSS – Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Award (Article) of the Gerontological Society of America (together with Denis Gerstorf), and the 2021 BSS – Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Award (Book), Gerontological Society of America (together with Manfred Diehl).