MSW, PhD (she/her)

Sarah began her career as a volunteer, Certified Nursing Assistant, and social worker who primarily worked in long-term care, residential communities, and hospice services with older adults and their loved ones. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Social Work who studies aging and later life, mainly through qualitative, creative, and collaborative or participatory methods. Her areas of focus include arts-based interventions and programming, intersections of aging with sexuality and sexual identity, and social work education and professional development. She enjoys writing poetry - both personally and as an educational or research endeavor - as well as slow mornings, rich coffee, and long walks.

PhD, (she/her)

Liz is a lifelong art educator, who completed her doctorate degree after a 30-year career as a secondary and museum art educator. She also taught art education and community art at University of Kansas and researched intergenerational art learning as an Associate Teaching Professor until she retired in May 2025. Her motto since is “Retired but not Tired!” Prior to academic experience, Liz maintained a studio practice while teaching and exhibited artwork locally in Omaha, NE and regionally in the Midwest. As current co-chair and past chair of the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) Lifelong Learning Committee she is an influential leader connecting art educators to opportunities beyond teaching grades PK-16, with a focus on older learners, to better understand the benefits of practicing visual art throughout the lifespan. She received the NAEA’s Pearl Greenberg Award for Teaching and Research in Lifelong Learning and five years prior she was awarded the Murray Greenberg Award for Emerging Scholars.