Nancy Giunta
Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, City University of New York and John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar.

Nancy Giunta, PhD, Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, directs Silberman Aging, a Hartford Center of Excellence in Diverse Aging. She has 20 years of practice experience, including direct service, advocacy, administration and research on long-term services and supports for older adults and people with disabilities. Dr. Giunta teaches policy, community organizing, and research classes and collaborates with social service agencies locally and nationally on a variety of evaluation and technical assistance projects. Her scholarship examines interventions to address service access inequities among older adults and the people who care for them. Dr. Giunta serves as evaluator for the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, an initiative led by SAGE. Dr. Giunta was a guest co-editor, with Dr. Noell Rowan, of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work special issue on LGBT Aging (2014). She also published The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures with Halaevalu Vakalahi and Gaynell Simpson. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine and is a John A. Hartford Faculty Scholar in Geriatric Social Work. She is an Advisory Board Member of the LGBT Social Science & Public Policy Center at Hunter College.Giunta’s research interests include aging and community, long term care policy, home and community-based service systems, and collaborative interventions to meet the needs of marginalized elders.

Dr. Giunta received her M.S.W. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare. Her dissertation research on the implementation of federal caregiver support policy was funded by the Hartford Foundation’s Geriatric Social Work Initiative and the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services.