by WomenOver70 | Apr 8, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Activism
In 2001, Kathleen (Keen) Harrison, PhD, took a leave from her university faculty position in medical genetics to travel with the Semester at Sea program. A visit to Kenya’s first orphanage for HIV-positive children changed the course of her life. She returned home...
by WomenOver70 | Apr 1, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Service
At 84, Phyllis Mitzen is still reshaping how communities care for older adults — with curiosity, courage and a fierce commitment to action. Phyllis spent 24 years at CJE Senior Life (formerly Council on Jewish Elderly) and went on to consult with Health & Medicine...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 25, 2026 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Mariann Aalda—actor, hypnotherapist, and joyful “pro-aging evangelist”—invites us to rethink what it means to grow older. She interrogates ageism, asking“ Why should youth get all the good press?” And declares, “My vibrancy and vitality are due to my being Age-full,...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 18, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Service
At 86, Sandra “Sandy” Taenzer reflects on a lifetime of innovation in Early Childhood–Special Education that began in the 1960s in Germany and still resonates today. Working in a large Illinois School District, Sandy helped initiate early childhood special education...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 11, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Some people discover their purpose early in life. For Karen Olson, 81, that moment came at age 18 when she offered a simple sandwich to a homeless woman outside a New York train station. Decades later, after retiring from her marketing career, she revisited that...