Join us for an inspiring and helpful converstion aboiut aging in place from multiple perspectives—both urban and rural.

Marian Cremin, received her Masters Degree in Social Work from Columbia University in New York, She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who has been in private practice as a DBT therapist, was  the former Owner/Director of a major Bay Area Senior Homecare Agency, and currently works as a medical Social worker at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael. She is also the former Board president of the San Geronimo Valley Community Center.  

Stacy Torres, PhD, Is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), core ladder rank faculty in the sociology doctoral program, and affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at UC Berkeley. Stacy is the author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America recently out from University of California Press.  

Voices of the Valley is all about community and we usually focus exclusively on local valley residents, which is true here with Marian who has lived in the San Geronimo valley for 25 years, but we also happen to have an aging population in the valley and when I came across Stacy's book, which is sub-titled "Growing Old in Urban America" I thought it would be really interesting to bring in a local expert to compare and contrast what the differences are between growing old in Nicasio & the San Geronimo Valley say, than in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago or Atlanta.