Monika is a Program Analyst in the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs at ACL. They worked for 4 years in the mental health field before earning a Masters of Public Policy and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan with a focus in healthcare policy.

Donna Bethge is an Aging Services Program Specialist in the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs at the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Administration on Aging.  She serves as the lead for the Falls Prevention grant program and as the Program Officer for the Chicago Housing Authority’s grant. Before joining the team at ACL, Donna worked in the Aging Network in Maryland for 10 years with Area Agencies on Aging and an assisted living community, developing and implementing programs for older adults, as well as supporting and promoting evidence-based programs.  She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management from Northern Kentucky University.

Paige Denison serves as the Director of Health, Wellness and Project Enhance® at Sound Generations, a multiservice community-based organization located in Seattle, WA. Paige has 20+ years of experience working with health promotion programs for older adults and adults aging with disabilities. Nationally, Paige oversees the ongoing licensing, research coordination, adaptation and dissemination of two such programs: Enhance®Fitness (45 States and DC) and Enhance®Wellness (11 States). Regionally, her oversight focuses on supporting multiple interventions for diverse adult populations, chairing the King County Falls Prevention Coalition and providing operational guidance for the development of the region’s Community Information Exchange. Her work on multiple boards and committees includes NCOA’s National Falls Prevention Summit Planning Committee, University of Washington Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) Community Advisory Board, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Exercise Is Medicine (EIM) Older Adult Advisory Committee (2017- 2023) and the Evidence Based Leadership Collaborative (2013-2020).

Marlana Kohn, MPH, is a research scientist at the UW Health Promotion Research Center. Her current research includes older adult physical activity, workplace health promotion, and age-appropriate cancer screening in the context of program implementation and dissemination. She works extensively with community partners to expand reach of evidence-based programming through research and adaptation.

Keri Lipperini is the Director in the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs, within the Administration for Community Living’s, Administration on Aging.  For over 25 years, she has worked in health and wellness, 20 of those years she has been working specifically with the aging and disabilities populations. Prior to her work at AoA, Ms. Lipperini served as Program Manager for Calvert County Maryland where she oversaw Calvert’s health promotion and nutrition programs. Keri is a former United States Navy Hospital Corpsman. She holds Masters in Public Administration (MPA) with Health Care focus from Troy State University and Bachelors of Science degree in Health Care Administration from Southern Illinois University.

Kate served as the Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center and Professor of Medicine in the Stanford School of Medicine. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Boston University, and her masters and doctorate of public health in health education at the University of California, Berkeley. She came to Stanford in 1979 while a graduate student at Cal to develop and research an educational program that emphasized self-help skills for people with arthritis. This program became the Arthritis Self-Help Course and was the prototype for the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, The Diabetes Self-Management Program, the Positive Self-Management Program for HIV, the Cancer: Thriving and Surviving Program, the Building Better Caregiver's Program, the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program, and others. She has authored several books and many articles about arthritis, chronic disease in general, health education and behavioral science. She travels extensively at the invitation of organizations concerned with patient care and academic research. She lives in Mountain View, CA, with her 2 cats and a collection of Native American art.

Judy Simon, MS, RD, LDN comes to ACL most recently from the Maryland Department of Aging where she acted as the Nutrition & Health Promotion Programs Manager. Throughout her career, Ms. Simon has focused on delivering high quality community-based nutrition and health promotion programs, including administering statewide Older Americans Act nutrition programs in two states. She has acted as Principle Investigator in ACL grants covering areas including Nutrition (Innovations), Chronic Disease Self-Management (CDSME) and Alzheimer’s Disease (ADPI). Ms. Simon has also delivered nutritional care to patients in long term and rehabilitation settings and is a food safety instructor. Ms. Simon has also achieved leadership positions within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and has participated in numerous, collaborative projects and publications addressing malnutrition in older adults.

Shannon Skowronski is the Team Lead in the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs, within the U.S. Administration for Community Living’s (ACL), Administration on Aging (AoA).  For over a decade, she has provided subject-matter expertise for AoA senior leadership, as well as managed a portfolio of grants, focused on healthy aging.  Previously, Ms. Skowronski served as a health policy analyst with RTI International. A former McGregor Geriatric Fellow, Ms. Skowronski holds Masters in Public Health and Masters of Social work degrees from the University of Michigan.

Lesha Spencer-Brown is an Aging Services Program Specialist in the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs, within the Administration for Community Living's, Administration on Aging. Driven by her passion for public health, she has spent the past decade working with nonprofit and local government entities to establish and enhance health promotion strategies among vulnerable populations and under-resourced communities. Prior to her work at ACL, Lesha served as a Health and Wellness Senior Program Manager for the National Recreation and Park Association where the managed the Healthy Aging in Parks Initiative. She earned a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Socio-Health Sciences and Community and Family Health from the University of South Florida, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Clark Atlanta University.

Kathleen Zuke was privileged to grow up with eight loving grandparents and developed a passion for supportive services for older adults as a caregiver for her grandfather. She has been a Senior Program Manager with the Center for Healthy Aging since 2015. In this role, she works collaboratively with community-based partners across the country to identify, implement, and sustain evidence-based programs that support older adults in staying well and aging in the community, including chronic disease self-management education, falls prevention, and behavioral health. She has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Hunter College and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Kathleen Cameron, BSPharm, MPH, has more than 25 years of experience in the health care field as a pharmacist, researcher, and program director focusing on falls prevention, geriatric pharmacotherapy, mental health, long-term services and supports, and caregiving. Cameron is Senior Director of the NCOA Center for Healthy Aging, where she provides subject matter expertise on health care programmatic and policy related issues and oversees the Modernizing Senior Center Resource Center.