NCCA Staff
Gay Hanna, PhD, MFA
Executive Director
ghanna@creativeaging.org
Susan Perlstein, MSW
Director of Special Projects
sperlstein@creativeaging.org
Katie Fitzgerald
Program Manager
kfitzgerald@creativeaging.org
Shari Sliwa
Membership Manager
ssliwa@creativeaging.org
Liz Anderson Simmons
Partnership Coordinator
lasimmons@creativeaging.org
NCCA Board of Directors
President:
Tobi Abramson, PhD
Past Chair, Mental Health Network
American Society on Aging
Program Coordinator
The Adult Development Center
NCCA Vice President:
Phyllis F. Cohen, PhD
Psychotherapist
NCCA Board Secretary:
Janice Blanchard, MSPH
Researcher, Writer and Consultant
NCCA Treasurer:
Stuart Kandell, PhD
Founder & Executive Director, Stagebridge
Full Board:
Anne Basting
Director of the Center on Age & Community
Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the peck School of Arts,
University of Wisconsin
Bob Blancato
President, Matz, Blancato & Associates, INC.
Bill Benson
Principal, Health Benefits ABCs
Karen Brinn
Previous Director, Westchester Center for Creative Aging
Donna Butts
Executive Director, Generations United
Tim Carpenter
Founder, EngAGE and the Expereince Talks Radio Show
Rennie Cohen
Retired
Maria Genne
Founder and Artistic Director,
Kairos Dance Theater
Kathleen Kelly
Executive Director, Family Caregiver Alliance
Linda S. Noelker, PhD
Senior Vice President, Planning and Organizational Resources
Director, Katz Policy Institute, Benjamin Rose Institute
Michael Patterson
Prinicipal, MindRAMP
Consultatnt
Donna Phillips
Vice President, Member and Network Services
National Council on Aging
