Serena Worthington
SAGE Staff Member
Her role:
To oversee SAGE’s policy advocacy efforts at the national, state and local levels, and to enhance the capacity of partner organizations across the country working with LGBT older people.
On what inspires her about SAGE:
“As a former director of a SAGE Affiliate, I have been privileged to participate in the regional and national policy work that SAGE spearheads and have seen firsthand the incredible gains that SAGE and its affiliates have made. I am thrilled and honored to join SAGE.”
On what inspires her about SAGE:
Serena served as the Senior Director of Public Programs at the Center on Halsted, Chicago’s LGBT community center, where she led a variety of programs for thousands of LGBT people throughout Chicago. Serena was the founding director of SAGE Center on Halsted, where she grew the program from four programs a month to more than 40, and from 20 participants to 700. In 2010, she launched the nation’s first LGBT homesharing program.
