William H. Dailey Jr., a faculty member in the Health Science Department’s Gerontology Program at California State University, Fresno, has been chosen as a Nash Fellow of the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Initiative at the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara.
Dailey is a doctoral student in Fielding’s School of Educational Leadership and Change, where he also is an advocate on disability and diversity issues that affect the university community.
The initiative is designed to promote research and practice that develop plans to help “organizations, individuals and society respond to 25 to 30 additional years of healthy aging.” Dailey’s dissertation is on building collaborative partnerships among community disability and aging agencies that serve elders.
Dailey was appointed a delegate-at-large to the White House Conference on Aging last year.
