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About Us

We are powered by a cogenerational, co-leadership duo and a diverse, multigenerational, accomplished team and board.

Interested in a speaker, facilitator or consultant from CoGenerate’s talented team and community? Contact Communications Director Stefanie Weiss at [email protected].

Staff Members

Cristina Rodríguez portrait
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Director, Innovation
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Director of the Encore Physicians Program
Tom Burns
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South Bay Regional Director, Encore Physicians Program
Duncan Magidson
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Director, Digital Communications & Engagement
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Senior Director, Innovation & Programs
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Founder and Co-CEO
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Chief Engagement Officer (CxO)
Marco Austin
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Controller
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Director, Operations & Development
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Staff Accountant
Stefanie Weiss
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Senior Director, Communications

Board Members

CoGen Impact Fellows

Advisors

Jeff Bradach, Co-founder, The Bridgespan Group

Harriette Cole, Author, columnist, radio host, founder of Dreamleapers

John Gomperts, Advocate for children & youth, national service, former President & CEO of America’s Promise, former Director of AmeriCorps

Gara LaMarche, Advocate for human rights and social justice, co-chair of Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, CUNY

Carol Larson, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity, former president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Eric Liu, CEO and co-founder of Citizen University

Julia Randall-Khan, Co-founder, The Purpose Xchange

Scott Shigeoka, Author, Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, partner in the launch of The Curious 100

Denise Webb, Author, senior youth staff member at the Partnership for Southern Equity

Isabel González Whitaker, AVP of Public Engagement for Moms Clean Force, Director of EcoMadres

Emeritus Board Members

David Bornstein, Author, journalist, founder of the Solutions Journalism Network

Laura Carstensen, Professor, Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity

Ernest Gonzales, Professor, Director of The Center for Health and Aging Innovation, NYU

Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, writer, speaker and nonprofit leader

Sherry Lansing, Former film studio executive, chair of Universal Music Group’s board of directors since 2023.

Joe Plummer, Author, adjunct professor in the Columbia Business School, president of Sunstar Americas Foundation

Lester Strong, Author, founder of The Peaceful Guardians Project

Ruth Wooden, Founder, Union Theological Seminary’s Encore Transition Program

David Vasquez-Levy, President, Pacific School of Religion