Kalisha Bonds Johnson, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Emory University Integrated Memory Care, a primary care clinic tailored to the care of persons living with dementia and their families. Dr. Bonds Johnson is the Principal Investigator of the DECIDE Research Lab at Emory University, which focuses on creating culturally tailored decision-making programs to improve the quality of life of families of African American persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a bachelor of science in nursing in 2007, earned a master of science in nursing from Vanderbilt University in 2012, and received her doctoral degree from Oregon Health & Science University in 2019. In 2021, Dr. Bonds Johnson completed her postdoctoral training at Emory University. Her research focuses on improving the quality of life of African American persons living with dementia and their family care partners, as well as improving the communication between these families and their primary care providers.

Brianna Morgan, PhD, CRNP, is a geriatric and palliative care nurse practitioner at New York University (NYU) Langone Health. She also is currently a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she is exploring supportive care interventions for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Dr. Morgan has over a decade of nursing experience caring for older adults living with serious illnesses, including dementia, cancer, and severe brain injury. She earned her bachelor of arts in the biological basis of behavior (2008), bachelor of science in nursing (2012), master’s degree in adult and gerontological primary care with a minor in palliative care (2015), and doctor of philosophy in nursing science (2022)—all from the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds an Advanced Certification in Hospice and Palliative Nursing and was named an Emerging Leader by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation in 2022. Dr. Morgan is a member of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association and she is Chair of the Emerging Scholar and Professional Organization in the Gerontological Society of America. Additionally, she has served as the course director for a graduate program class on Health Care in an Aging Society (2016–2019) and currently guest lectures in several courses across all academic programs at Penn Nursing.

Cal Halvorsen, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, a project lead and investigator at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-Being, and a research affiliate at the Karolinska Institute Unit of Occupational Medicine in Stockholm. Dr. Halvorsen is a gerontological social work scholar whose research is at the confluence of aging societies, paid and unpaid work, and social purpose and impact. He has expertise in self-employment, job-training programs, volunteering in later life, and intergenerational initiatives. His research has been funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Institutes of Health, AmeriCorps, AARP, and the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. 

Glenna Brewster Glasgow, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, is an assistant professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. Her research primarily focuses on two key areas: (1) understanding, tailoring, and developing dyadic behavioral interventions to address the sleep challenges faced by persons with cognitive impairment and their care partners, and (2) psychoeducational interventions for caregivers of persons with dementia in the Caribbean. Dr. Brewster is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging and holds key leadership positions with the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Association. She received her PhD in nursing science from the University of South Florida and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 

Lindsay Kobayashi, PhD, is an associate professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the social epidemiology of cognitive aging from a global perspective. Dr. Kobayashi investigates social and economic life course influences on cognitive aging, primarily using data from internationally harmonized longitudinal studies of aging, including older populations of the United States, England, India, China, Mexico, and South Africa. At the University of Michigan, she is a member of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, the Rogel Cancer Center, and the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. In recognition of her contributions to the social epidemiology of cognitive aging in rural South Africa, she is an Honorary Senior Researcher at the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 

Jamie Justice, PhD, is Executive Director of XPRIZE Healthspan Prize and Executive Vice President of Health Domain at XPRIZE Foundation. At Wake Forest University School of Medicine, she is an adjunct assistant professor of internal medicine in the Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and Jarrahi Fund in Geroscience Innovation, the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research, and the National Institute on Aging Nathan Shock Award. She is dedicated to geroscience which advances the hypothesis that by targeting the basic biology of aging, the incidence of multiple age-related diseases can be delayed or prevented. As Executive Director of XPRIZE Healthspan, Dr. Justice operates a $101 million global competition to incentivize teams from around the world to develop and translate innovative therapeutic solutions that make healthy human aging possible.