by WomenOver70 | Jun 26, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
As an educational leader and mentor, Dr. Helen Benjamin tells stories about growing up in the segregated South, living and working in two worlds—Black and White, and helping younger Black professionals navigate their CEO roles in community colleges. In...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 18, 2024 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Do you want to share housing but find the transition scary? We often live in shared housing when we are single: college, roommates in camp, at conferences, during our early careers. Living with housemates as we age is no different. Annamarie Pluhar, 70, is a...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 12, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Mary Mitchell, age 74, sheds light on aging and ageism in her occasional column for the Chicago Sun Times, Starting Over. Mary ‘started over’ five years ago when she switched her journalistic authority on race relations in Chicago to concentrate on matters of growing...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 5, 2024 | Expressive Arts, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Ann Anderson Evans, age 82, lives in Vermont. She is a writer, linguist, and former professor. Her first memoir, Daring to Date Again (2014), which tells the story of what happened after she started dating at 62, won multiple prizes. Her sequel The Sweet Pain of Being...
by WomenOver70 | May 29, 2024 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Susan Gangsei, a classically trained tapestry artist from Minneapolis, MN, uses her talent to create images of women aging. Her recent series, The Sacred Journey of Aging, features the “beauty, strength, and wisdom of older women.” Susan treats viewers to her...