Jacqueline L. Angel, PhD, is the Wilbur J. Cohen Professor of Health and Social Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a leading scholar in aging, families, and health disparities, with a special emphasis in Latino populations. Her research examines how longer lives are reshaping caregiving, retirement, and long-term care, with particular attention to the role of public policy in supporting older adults and those who care for them. Recently, she published (with Sunshine Rote) Latino Families in Later Life: A New Caregiver Paradigm (2026, Routledge).

Emma Aguila is an Associate Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and Associate Director of ICAA. She is an Economist, studying how social security and social insurance programs affect health and well-being for vulnerable older adults, with expertise in US, Hispanics, Mexico/Latin America pension systems, and aging surveys.

Flávia Cristina Drumond Andrade, PhD is Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with appointments in the School of Social Work (where she directs the PhD program) and the Sociology Department. A demographer and gerontologist by training, she studies aging, health, and mortality across the Americas, with a particular focus on Brazil, Mexico, and Latino populations in the U.S. Her recent NIH- and WHO-funded projects examine living arrangements, inflammation, and mortality among older Brazilian adults, and unmet need for social care among older persons. She co-leads the long-running NIH-funded Conference Series on Aging in the Americas and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Aging and Health and Journal of Global Ageing. A Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America since 2015, she has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on health disparities, chronic disease, and healthy longevity in aging populations worldwide.

Luisa Blanco is a Professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. She is an economist, and her research focuses on retirement planning, household financial decision-making, and the economic wellbeing of older adults, with attention to racial and ethnic disparities. She also leads community-based participatory research on economic inclusion and health, and studies digital tools for promoting behavioral change. Blanco is co-Director of the Analysis Core at the UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR/CHIME) and a J-PAL Invited Researcher. She conducted research through the NBER Retirement and Disability Research Center and was a fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leadership program, a visiting scholar at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She served as President of the American Society of Hispanic Economists and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Stipica Mudrazija is an Assistant Professor and the William L. Dowling Endowed Professor in Health Administration in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, and an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He studies issues related to population aging and the health and wellbeing of adults across the life course, their families, and the broader social systems in the United States and internationally. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies, as well as major foundations and philanthropic organizations. It has been featured in media outlets including CNBC, Daily Mail, The Economist, Forbes, Reuters, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

Adriana Reyes’ research focus is on family demography and health disparities across the life course. Her work aims to understand how family ties provide social capital to help individuals navigate the life course, and how these family ties perpetuate inequalities across race and class. Professor Reyes’ current projects examine intergenerational family exchanges, including bequests; the financial and health consequences of living arrangements; and public attitudes and perceptions regarding family responsibility for caregiving. She has recently published on family exchanges across the life course in Research on Aging and on attitudes towards aging policy in Journal of Aging and Social Policy. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography at Penn State in 2016.