Lou-ellen barkan biography
Lou-Ellen Barkan serves as President and CEO of CaringKind (formerly known as the Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter).!
Dear Friends,
On the recent occasion of my 70th birthday, I decided that it was time to go radical.
With one notable exception in the 1960s (when I burned my bra to save a neighborhood library from closing) my life has been one of judicious restraint.
From being a full-time mother to having a career on Wall Street, and from serving in Mayor Rudy Giuliani's inner circle to my leadership roles in the nonprofit world, my goal was always to stay on the path and get the job done without ruffling too many feathers.
As I was blowing out the birthday candles, in a moment of absolute clarity, I realized that 70 is not the new 50.
Seventy is the new 70. And with this revelation came immediacy to my worry about the kind of world I am leaving to my grandchildren. It seemed time to rattle the cage.
But where would I start?
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The list of what ails the world is long. Global warming. Terrorism. Hunger.
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Poverty. The Economy.
Dad always told me, stick to what you know best. So from my eleven-year