External Advisory Board Bios
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Orien Reid Nix, Board Chair
Richard P. Brown, Jr., Esq.
Willo Carey
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In April, 2009, Orien Reid Nix was appointed as the Institute on Aging's External Advisory Board Chair. Ms. Reid was the first woman to ever hold the position as Chair of the National Board of Directors of the Alzheimer's Association and is currently the Vice Chair of Alzheimer's Disease International - in addition to being a respected advocate and media personality in the Philadelphia area. She is also a Member of the National Advisory Council on Aging and an Advisory Board Member for the National Institutes of Health Council of Councils. In addition to being a Charter Member of the Montgomery County of Pennsylvania Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. and a Member of Philadelphia Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Ms. Reid works with Jefferson Hospital's Farber Institute for Neurosciences and the Dickens Auxiliary Board of Abington Memorial Hospital. Ms. Reid, who often characterizes herself as a baby boomer with a family history of dementia, learned first-hand the struggles and sacrifices of caring for a person with a chronic neurological disorder. She was her mother's primary caregiver while also looking after her own young children. She has testified before Congress about the need for increased funding for Alzheimer's research and patient-care programs. Ms. Reid's mother died of Alzheimer's at 75 years old; her grandmother, aunt and uncle also had Alzheimer's. Ms. Reid earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Clark College and a Master's Degree from the Atlanta University School of Social Work in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Counsel Richard Brown has been an integral member of the IOA External Advisory Board since the IOA’s evolution in 1990 from the Center for the Study of Aging. Mr. Brown brings with him a storied personal career in volunteerism and non-profit leadership. Throughout his professional career in law as a partner in the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Mr. Brown has devoted his time, expertise and imagination to organizations working to improve the health and welfare of the Philadelphia region and the world. While still active as counsel at Morgan Lewis, Mr. Brown currently participates as a board member of the Eisenhower Fellowships; the International Peace Institute in New York; International House Center; WHYY, Inc.; the William Penn Charter School; the Foreign Policy Research Institute; the Friends of the Wissahickon, and the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His relationship with Penn has included service as a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and as board chairman of the University of Pennsylvania Health System until 1990. Mr. Brown is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and also a past chairman of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association. |
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Executive Director Willo Carey is Executive Director of Wider Horizons, a multimedia service developed by WHYY, the premier public broadcasting service for the Greater Philadelphia market, to address the needs and interests of the growing population approaching and in the second half of life - baby boomers planning their retirement or new careers, retirees and active elders, children of aging parents, and the frail homebound. Willo has been with WHYY since 1981, as Director of Development, Campaign Director of a $15 million capital campaign completed in 1999, and a member of WHYY’s executive management team concerned with strategic planning, institutional branding and development of new services across a multimedia environment. Prior to joining WHYY, she was a fundraising professional for Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania. She has an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College and did graduate work in sculpture at Tyler School of Art in Rome. She serves as Vice Chair of the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging and on the board of CARIE (Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly), the External Advisory Board of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute on Aging, the Executive Committee of the Section on Medicine and the Arts of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Advisory Board of the Delaware Valley Schweitzer Fellows Program, and the Pennsylvania Task Force for Quality at the End of Life. Willo was honored for her work in Wider Horizons with the Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatric Society’s 2005 President’s Award, given for the first time in 15 years. |
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