Assistant Professor
Boston College
Allston, Massachusetts, United States
Cal J. Halvorsen, PhD, MSW, is an assistant professor at the Boston College School of Social Work. He is also a project lead and investigator at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, & Well-Being, an affiliate of the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, and a Senior Research Fellow at Encore.org. His work examines aging societies, intergenerational initiatives, and the need and desire for people past midlife to work past traditional retirement age, with particular emphasis on self-employment, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and encore careers. His research has been funded by both public and private sources, including the U.S. Social Security Administration, AmeriCorps, Boston College, Encore.org, and the Hope Foundation.
Cal has published op-eds in Fast Company, Forbes, and Next Avenue on later-life entrepreneurship and ageism. His expertise on older workers has also been featured in The New York Times regarding older entrepreneurs and freelancers, as well as The Washington Post, BBC, AARP, MarketWatch, and more.
Previously, he worked for six years at Encore.org, later serving as the organization’s director of research and evaluation. Cal is a graduate of both the MSW and Ph.D. programs at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and earned his BA from the University of Iowa in his hometown of Iowa City.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET