Dana Bright

Dana Bright, LSW, is current the Manager of Health Promotion for Health and Aging at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. In this role, she oversees health promotion and disease prevention program development and implementation for older adults and caregivers across the medical center and in the community. As a Master Trainer for multiple evidence-based health promotion interventions for older adults, Ms. Bright is responsible for the dissemination and evaluation of evidence-based self-management programming and in this role has developed expertise in the application of these programs in community practice and factors that facilitate program dissemination. Ms. Bright graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan in 2004 with a Certificate in Aging and concentrations in Aging and Community Organization. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Xavier University. Prior to working at Rush, Dana served as the Project Manager for the Blueprint for Aging in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a partnership to improve long-term care and supportive services in Washtenaw County funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Among other community service activities, Ms. Bright recently concluded five years of service on the Executive Board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Chicago.

Masaki Hirayama

 Masaki Hirayama, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She earned her MSW from UCLA in 2007. Masaki participated in the Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC) and did her field placement at the Sepulveda VA Ambulatory Care Center. She is delighted to have been selected to be a CLIA participant and welcomes students to contact her to learn about the field. Masaki lives in San Francisco with her husband and their 2.5-year-old son.

Lindsay Prizer

Lindsay Prizer, MSW, LCSW is currently a doctoral student in Health Promotion and Behavior at the University of Georgia, where her research focuses on aging and end of life decision-making. Prior to going back to school, she worked as the Clinical Social Worker and Center Coordinator for the UNC Movement Disorders Center, where she primarily worked with older adults diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. In this position she also served as a field rotation supervisor for a Hartford scholar, and she worked with the UNC Social Work program to promote aging work to incoming students. She earned her BSW at Georgia State University in 2008, and she graduated with an MSW from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. During her time at UNC, she was a Harftord scholar, and she interned at Duke's Memory Disorders Clinic and their Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment Clinic as well as at the Shep Center for Health Sciences Research.

Kevin McKenzie

Kevin is a student at University at Buffalo School of Social Work, who will graduate with his MSW this spring.  Throughout his studies, Kevin has interned as a student therapist with Catholic Charities of Buffalo's mental health initiative and with Hospice Buffalo as a medical social work intern.  While at UB, Kevin also served as a student senator for the School of Social Work in the Graduate Student Association.  Prior to beginning his graduate studies, Kevin was employed by Erie County Senior Services, the Area Agency of Aging in Buffalo, as a case manager.  Kevin works as a volunteer group leader for the Living Healthy Program (formerly known as the Chronic Disease Self Management Program) where he helps to empower older adults to live healthy and independent lives.  Kevin is also a member of the NASW.

Laura Sutherland

Paige Walker

Paige Walker, MSW, is excited to be apart of of CLIA. Paige earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College and MSW with a concentration in Geriatric Social Work from Binghamton University. As a 2010-2011 HPPAE Fellow, she interned at the Rural Health Network of South Central New York where she provided older adults with multiple chronic illnesses with individual, group, and psycho-educational support. As a High School Social Work Intern, Paige worked with grandparent-headed and intergenerational families. Her primary interest is in aging and related issues within the LGBT population. Paige received the 2012 Student of the Year Award from NASW New York State Chapter. She currently works as the LGBT Program Coordinator at the Southern Tier AIDS Program.