Thursday, October 23, 2025
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. PDT
Join our learning community for the season premiere of the At Home, On Air podcast! Don’t miss the live recording of the 50th episode, where you will have an insiders opportunity to ask questions following the interview with our featured guest speaker, Jennie Chin Hansen. Jennie is a former President of AARP and Executive Director of OnLok. In 2022, she participated in our agein panel discussion, which focused on elder wisdom. Jennie continues to be an active community builder and advocate using her expertise and platform to create positive change – we’re thrilled to welcome her back for this special milestone episode!
Season Topic:
People and Places That Build Community: Creating a Home Away From Home
This season of At Home, On Air, we will engage community builders and place-makers to highlight the vital role everyday spaces play in keeping us healthy and connected — from the neighborhood café and the front porch, to local parks and places of worship. These so-called “third spaces” are essential for community and individual well-being across all stages of life.
Our conversations will explore how inclusive design, thoughtful program offerings and mixed uses can make community spaces welcoming to people of all ages and abilities. We will also examine how activism and advocacy are sparking new models of community through affordable housing projects, grassroots organizing, and initiatives that prioritize connection across generations.
Now more than ever, as our population ages, such gathering places are essential. Join us as we discover the people and places that build communities where everyone—regardless of age or ability—can feel At Home With Growing Older.
Leading up to the live premiere on October 23, we invite you to find insights and new perspectives by exploring previous conversations with our expert guest speakers!
Wisdom from Community Leaders:
Dr. Mindy Fullilove
MD, Writer, Social Psychiatrist, Professor at The New School
“I was studying urban renewal and came up with this idea of ‘Root Shock,’ or the ways in which losing one’s home and neighborhood reverberate through a community, through one’s life, through generations.”
Listen to Episode 37 — Healthy Cities: How Our Homes and Neighborhoods Support Individual and Community Health Across Generations
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Photographer, Urbanist, Author, Co-Founder of Buscada
“How our bodies are allowed to move through everyday spaces significantly contributes to whether we feel our lives are precious. How places enable physical freedom is one part of how they do the placework of supporting ourselves; freedom is in both our bodies and our minds.”
Listen to Episode 42 — The Surprising Power of Everyday Spaces for Our Health and Wellbeing
Jessica Finlay
MA, PhD University of Michigan
“The goal is to think critically about neighborhoods to help inform policymaking and community service provisions to build better neighborhoods and to help support aging-in-place, particularly among underserved and underrepresented communities.”
“It’s not about taking away from one generation to give to another; it’s creatively building spaces for all of us, regardless of whether we’re 8 years old or 80 years old.”
Listen to Episode 22 — Aging in Many Places: Neighborhoods, Health, and Wellbeing in Later Life
Jennie Chin Hansen
Former President of AARP and Executive Director of OnLok
“Policy is very powerful; but policy by itself, if it’s not implemented, doesn’t mean a whole lot. It really takes the vision and then the hard work.”
Listen to Episode 44: Changemaker Interviews Special Edition
To Our Speakers:
A huge thank you to all of our guest speakers, whose insights and personal stories have offered us valuable perspectives on aging, community and the power of storytelling – wisdom that continues to inspire and guide us through these transformative times.
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