BETH WITROGEN Beth is a contributing editor at the Journal on Active Aging, pursuing her passion for illuminating paths of wellness as we age. She is currently writing about the increasingly powerful rising of older women in a society that renders them invisible. She is also an avid outdoor photographer specializing in birds. She is a double Pulitzer Prize nominee, one for her book "Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal" (2000) and one for her groundbreaking newspaper series (“The Caregivers”) at The SF Examiner (1995), which won many national and regional awards. She has published in Good Housekeeping, SELF, Family Circle, Health, Cooking Light, the Wall Street Journal, and Aging Today, WebMD, ThirdAge, and Consumer Health Interactive. She is a contributing member of Boundless Freedom Project, bringing meditation and internal arts to formerly incarcerated. Beth also has a deep Taoist qigong practice and Buddhist meditation practice that sustain wellness and open-heartedness. For 30+ years in newspapers, Beth honed her skills as a top-notch editor and production coordinator. She has edited several books, including Rodale Press’s And Thou Shalt Honor, a companion book to the 2002 PBS series on which she was a consultant, and Dr. Mary Furlong’s Turning Silver Into Gold. For her work in elder care, Beth was interviewed widely on television (including Katie Couric on the “Today” show), radio (NPR and Wisdom Radio), in print (Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Body & Soul, Newsday, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Prevention, and Money), and the web (HealthDay, Caring.com). She originated the nation’s first online caregiving support group, for AARP; developed the Caregiving Channel for ThirdAge.com; and consulted on four PBS programs on caregiving.Specialties: editing, writing, photography, newspaper and magazine production, project development. Keynote speaker and workshops on the spirituality of aging and caregiving, wellness at midlife, self-care, and aging well.