Monika White, PhD, is an experienced practitioner, educator, researcher, author, lecturer and administrator. She has focused her work on coordinating health, mental health and community-based service delivery systems for older adults and their families and is a leading authority on care management, eldercare services and healthy aging. She consults nationally and internationally. Executive Vice President for External Affairs and Program Innovation for WISE & Healthy Aging in Santa Monica, CA, she is adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California Schools of Gerontology and Social Work in Los Angeles and the 2008 President of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers.

WISE & Healthy Aging offers a wide range of programs dealing with every aspect of aging, including disease prevention, age-related disabilities, and education for healthy lifestyles to seniors in the Greater Los Angeles area. The organization is the result of a recent merger between WISE Senior Services and Center for Healthy Aging, both longstanding nonprofits that provide direct services and advocacy for seniors for more than 40 years.