Nancy Giunta, PhD
Associate Professor, Director, Silberman Aging, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY
Nancy Giunta is an Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and serves as the Director of Silberman Aging, a Hartford Center of Excellence in Diverse Aging. Dr. Giunta’s experience in the field of aging spans nearly thirty years, most recently with facilitating inter-organizational partnerships and implementing innovative interventions to improve older adult service systems. Her areas of expertise include gerontological social work –home and community-based services, aging-friendly communities, and caregiver support. Her practice revolves around LGBT aging, inter-agency collaboration, and community-based participatory research. Her research examines interventions to address service access inequities among older adults and the people who care for them. Dr. Giunta collaborates with communities locally and nationally on evaluation and technical assistance projects.
Currently, she serves as an evaluator of the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, an initiative led by Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE). She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and served as co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work on LGBT Aging. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, a Faculty Fellow of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, and was recognized by the New York Academy of Medicine as an emerging leader in the field of Social Work. Dr. Giunta earned her Ph.D. in Social Welfare and a Master of Social Work degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master of Arts in Gerontology from San Francisco State University. She splits her time between New York City and Northern Appalachia. In her spare time, she is learning and organizing around food justice and local food systems while serving as President of the Board of Wholesome Harvest Food Co-op in Frostburg, MD.