Get ready for Senior Center Month 2023 - “Discover Yours”!

Dianne Stone has more than 20 years of experience with senior centers and aging issues, primarily as the Director of the Newington Senior and Disabled Center in Newington, Connecticut. Stone has also worked, volunteered, and held leadership positions with a variety of organizations in Connecticut, including Connecticut AgeWell Collaborative, the ADA Coalition of Connecticut, Connecticut Medicaid Oversight Council, and the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity. She joined NCOA in January 2022, as a member of the Center for Healthy Aging, where she is primarily focused on supporting senior centers throughout the country through the ACL-funded Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC. 

Jill Hall is the Chair of the National Council on Aging’s National Institute of Senior Centers and 2020 recipient of the NCOA’s Trailblazers in Aging NISC Founders Award. She recently relocated to Colorado and started a new position as the Senior Services Manager for the Highlands Ranch Metro District, which has just begun construction on a senior center to serve the district’s older adults. Previously, Jill spent almost 15 years with the Baltimore County, Maryland, Department of Aging where she managed 21 senior centers and 45 nutrition sites, and 10 years as the Supervisor of the City of Rockville’s Senior Center. Jill has a Master’s Degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.