Join us for a thought-provoking, insightful and informative Lunch in the Bay Area!

WHEN: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 from Noon to 2pm

WHERE: Sterling Administration (1000 Broadway #250, Oakland, CA 94607)

TOPIC: “Riding the Longevity Wave”

SPEAKER: Susan Hoffman, Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), UC Berkeley

HOW: Tickets here https://acnoaklandmay2017.eventbrite.com

Meet our Lunch Speaker, Susan Hoffman:

For ten years, Susan Hoffman has been at UC Berkeley as the Director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, creating an educational program for the 50+ learner which includes courses, educational travel and building a learning community with 2,000 active members and an engaged volunteer force of 240 people.  As a part of the University’s division on Teaching and Learning, Susan’s research team of 10 scholars and researchers from UCB and UCSF have examined the connection between learning and dynamic aging as well as explored the interests and learning of the 80+ learner in its Fourth Age Salon.  Susan has established campus research partnerships with CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society), Science for the Greater Good, and other faculty in the academic departments of Public Health and Psychology. Susan was recently asked to contribute to a paper for the Obama administration on hearing loss and hearing technologies. 

Before coming to the University of California Berkeley, Susan Hoffman worked for the California State University—both at the state chancellor’s office and at San Francisco State—creating new interdisciplinary and international programs. She initiated the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at SFSU in 2002 and moved to UC Berkeley in 2007 to re-envision and build an entirely new Osher program. Previously, Hoffman served for a decade as the executive director of the California Confederation of the Arts, advocating for California artists, art educators, and arts organizations in Sacramento and Washington D.C., and developing cultural and educational policies. Her creative portfolio as a writer and film-maker includes directing short films and writing and publishing essays and poetry. Her adjunct faculty appointments have been in creative writing, theatre, and political philosophy.