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. 

Emily A. Greenfield, PhD, FGSA, is a Professor of Social Work at Rutgers University and Founding Director of the Rutgers Hub for Aging Collaboration. Her scholarship seeks to bolster community-centered approaches for advancing innovation and equity in social programs for long and healthy lives. Her work has helped to accelerate 21st-century models for aging in community, including age- and dementia-friendly community initiatives, housing-based supportive service programs, and the Village Movement. Hallmark features of her scholarship include fostering cross-sectoral partnerships and elevating the voices of grassroots leaders. She also champions aging within higher education, such as by launching the Hub for Aging Collaboration to amplify work on aging across disciplines and to bolster opportunities for enhanced social work training on aging and older adults.

Dr. Leach is an Assistant Professor of Research at the Institute of Gerontology, Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core at the Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES), and Associate Center Director for Community Inclusion at the Center for Health Equity and Community Knowledge in Urban Populations (CHECK-UP) at Wayne State University. She is a health communication expert with more than 15 years of experience in community engagement and community-based participatory research processes, with extensive experience conducting collaborative research and evaluation. Her research aims are focused on addressing health inequities by co-developing community-responsive solutions derived from participatory processes that will improve the provision of health-related services and care. Her ultimate goal is to improve the flow of and access to health-protecting information to historically marginalized populations who need it most.

Isabell C. May, PhD directs the Entrepreneurship and Science Communication for Aging and Aging-Related Research (ESCAAR) program and the Certificate in Science Communication at the University of Maryland School of Graduate Studies, and she leads the UMB Writing Center. She specializes in inclusive, interdisciplinary science communication across audiences and sectors and serves as Co-PI on an NIH Fogarty R25 focused on research ethics education in Morocco. A faculty fellow with Teach Access and the National Federation of the Blind, she advances accessibility in higher education and regularly publishes on science communication pedagogy.