Michelle Putnam, PhD, MGS, FGSA is Director of the Gerontology Institute and Professor in the Gerontology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She holds a BA in History from the University of Michigan, a Master's in Gerontological Studies from Miami University in Ohio, and a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles, and served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Public Health in Disabilities at Oregon Health & Sciences University. Dr. Putnam's scholarship focuses on the intersections of aging and disability including how growing older with lifelong and long-term disability is different than aging into disability for the first time in later life and how to build bridges across aging and disability research, policy and practice. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Innovation in Aging, a journal of the Gerontological Society of America.

Karen J. Jung, MSW, serves as Publishing Manager/Managing Editor of Innovation in Aging and The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, journals of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Prior to joining GSA in 2017, she worked as a Program Assistant at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging at Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine. She received a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies with a Minor in Biology from Dickinson College and a Master of Social Work from Temple University.