Susan Hoffman builds innovative educational programs for older adults and conducts interdisciplinary  research projects on learning across the lifespan, inter-generational dialogues and co-designing. At Berkeley since 2007, Hoffman heads the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of 3000 members with 70 faculty teaching 110 courses annually in two locations, Berkeley and Lafayette.  As a poet and an AFI trained filmmaker, her focus is on the older protagonist.

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