Millennials to Baby Boomers: Experience-Related Challenges for Your Career
Career Development Network, Career Forum Panel, November 7, 2016
November 7, 2016
Career Development Network
Career Forum Panel
Millennials to Baby Boomers:
Experience-Related Challenges for Your Career
PANELIST BIOS
ELIZABETH F. FIDELER, EdD
Elizabeth F. Fideler, EdDis a research fellow at the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. After several years of classroom teaching in the Framingham, MA Public Schools, she earned a doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University. She continued working for many years as an education researcher and senior manager in non-profit organizations. She is an experienced presenter and the author of numerous articles and reports.
Her primary research and writing interests focus on older women and men who choose to continue in the paid workforce beyond conventional retirement age:
- Women Still at Work—Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job (2012) is available from Rowman & Littlefield Publishing: .
- Men Still at Work—Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job (2014) is available from Rowman & Littlefield Publishing: .
Currently she is working on a biography of Margaret Pearmain Welch (1893-1984), an activist, pacifist, reformer, and preservationist and longtime resident of Louisburg Square and Framingham, Massachusetts. Dr. Fideler is also an elected member of the Framingham Public Library’s Board of Trustees.She chairs the Library’s bi-annual “one book, one community initiative,” Framingham Reads Together, which brought author David McCullough to Framingham in May 2016.
She and her husband Paulhave resided in Framingham since 1964. They have two adult children and five grandchildren.
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ASHTON APPLEWHITE
Author and activistAshton Applewhitehas been recognized by theNew York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks,speaks widely,has written forHarper’s,Playboy, and theNew York Times, andisthe voice of Yo, Is This Ageist?She is a Knight Fellow, a New York Times Fellow, a fellow at Yale Law School, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
In 2015 Ashton was included inSaltmagazine's list of100 inspiring women—along withAngelina Jolie, Elizabeth Warren,Germaine Greer, Naomi Klein, and other remarkableactivists—who are committed to social change. In 2016, she joined Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year.
Ashton’s work is a call to wake up to the ageism in and around us, embrace a more nuanced and accurate view of growing older, and push back against the forces that frame it as decline. The author ofThis Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton is a leading spokesperson for a movement to mobilize against discrimination on the basis of age.She recently contributed a well-received op-ed piece tothe Sunday New York Times (9/4/16) entitled: You’re How Old? We’ll be in Touch.
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MICHAEL HERNDON
Michael Herndon returned to AARP as Vice President Financial Resilience in November 2015 having worked for the association from 2005 to 2011 as Manager, Financial Security. In his current role, he oversees programmatic efforts to help Americans 50+ make good financial decisions as they approach retirement, protect their money from fraud, and remain in the workforce as long as desired.
Between these roles at AARP, Mr. Herndon was the Consumer Outreach Officer for the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission, where he led the agency's consumer outreach and financial literacy efforts.
From 1999 to 2004, he served as the Director of Public Affairs for Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board). He came to that position after working for the International Association for Financial Planning (IAFP) as Manager of Government Relations.
Mr. Herndon earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Public Administration from Georgia State University where he received the Dan Sweat Scholarship for Academic Excellence.
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