High Touch Volunteering Meets High Impact Technology

Donya Currie is a journalist, writer, editor, and content strategist who brings a passion for social justice and equity to her work at NCOA. She has decades of experience covering health and public health as well as expertise in helping other tell their powerful personal stories. She is a National Center to Reframe Aging facilitator and would love to talk to you about changing the way we think about aging.

Laura Colin Klein is the Director of Volunteer Services at DOROT, a New York nonprofit that mobilizes volunteers to addresses social isolation among older adults and promote healthy aging. DOROT mobilizes 6,000+ volunteers, ages 5-95, each year. Laura has spent the past 25 years working in the nonprofit sector. She served as Executive Director of charitySTRONG, a nonprofit tech startup focusing on board training and governance; Director of the Children’s Aid Society’s Rhinelander Community Center in the Yorkville neighborhood in Manhattan; and as a strategy and evaluation consultant at TCC Group, a philanthropic advisory firm. Laura has worked with volunteers throughout her career and volunteered in numerous direct service roles and is currently on the boards of directors of the Uptown Interagency Council on Aging and COHME, a nonprofit home healthcare agency. She has an M.B.A. and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.

Joy Zhang is the co-founder and co-CEO of Mon Ami, a tech-for-good company that builds modern technology solutions to help social services scale. She was a founding member of two prior technology ventures supporting caregivers and aging-in-place and consulted with the World Health Organization's Innovations in Aging team in Japan. She has a BA and MBA from Stanford University and has been a hospice and dementia volunteer since high school.