Julie Miller is director of financial resilience thought leadership, where she seeks to propel new conversations and cultivate partnerships that will challenge the status quo of longevity and empower people to have the financial and economic stability to live longer, healthier lives. A practiced public speaker and facilitator, she regularly presents to a wide spectrum of audiences across diverse industries.

Prior to joining AARP, Dr. Miller spent a decade as a researcher at the MIT AgeLab, where she advanced interdisciplinary and translational social science research about planning for longer lives. As a Rappaport Public Policy Fellow through Harvard University’s Rappaport Institute, Dr. Miller supported the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs in its administration of the nation’s first statewide Governor’s Council to Address Aging. Over the past fifteen years, she has served as a lecturer and program coordinator at Northeastern University, Boston University, and UC Berkeley, taught adaptive yoga in a variety of settings, and produced two documentary films about aging in America. She has served as a volunteer advisory board member for the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities, The University of Maryland Financial Social Work Initiative, and the National Center on Elder Abuse.

Julie’s work and comments have appeared in major news outlets such as The New York Times, Barron’s, Rethinking65, and CNBC, as well as in peer-reviewed academic journals such as The Journal of Financial Planning, Families in Society, The Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, The Journal of Workplace and Behavioral Health, and numerous edited books.