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Julie Miller is Director of Thought Leadership for Financial Resilience at AARP. In her role on the Policy, Research, and International Affairs team, she works to position AARP as a leader in challenging the status quo related to financial resilience and longevity, cultivate provocative partnerships within and outside of the organisation and spark and propel new conversations among thinkers and doers that ultimately empower all people to make the most of longer and healthier lifespans. She previously spent a decade conducting translational and interdisciplinary research at the MIT AgeLab that spanned topics including retirement and longevity planning, caregiving and wellbeing, transportation and livable communities, housing and home logistics. She has led cutting-edge research related to student loan repayment, family dynamics and longevity planning; financial exploitation; trust and advice within the longevity advisory industry and has built and scaled international community-and-consortia-based research and training initiatives. Miller’s work has appeared in The New York Times, CNBC, The Christian Science Monitor, Innovation in Aging, The Journal of Financial Planning, The Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, The Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, among other outlets. She has held faculty and program development positions at multiple postsecondary institutions and directed and produced two documentary films centering the ambition of “Vibrant Aging.” She earned her Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Work from Boston College, a Masters in Social Work from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelors of Science from Northeastern University.

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