Lisa Krinsky
Director of the LGBTQIA+ Aging Project, Fenway Institute
Lisa Krinsky, MSW, LICSW, Director of the LGBTQIA+ Aging Project, a program of the Fenway Institute at Fenway Health in Boston, works toward equity, inclusion, and community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersex and asexual older adults, ensuring that they can age with the dignity and respect they deserve. As a leader in the field of LGBTQIA+ aging, she presents nationally on LGBTQIA+ cultural competency for aging service providers, as well as a variety of practice and policy issues impacting LGBTQIA+ older adults. With attention to intersectional identities, she has prioritized outreach, engagement, and program development for LGBTQ elders of color and transgender and gender diverse older adults.
Krinsky has been instrumental in Massachusetts’ leadership in advancing LGBTQIA+ aging policy, practice, and research at institutional, systemic, and interpersonal levels. Of note, Massachusetts’ first in the nation LGBT aging legislation: creation of the statewide LGBT Aging Commission (she has been a member since its inception in 2013) and the LGBT cultural competency training requirement for Massachusetts’ statewide network of 200,000 elder service providers (2018), for which she developed the interactive e-learning module ensuring training compliance. Krinsky is also a subject expert in the award-winning LGBTQ aging documentary Gen Silent, and a founding board member of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., developing The Pryde, in Boston, New England’s first LGBTQ friendly affordable senior housing.
Krinsky has been instrumental in Massachusetts’ leadership in advancing LGBTQIA+ aging policy, practice, and research at institutional, systemic, and interpersonal levels. Of note, Massachusetts’ first in the nation LGBT aging legislation: creation of the statewide LGBT Aging Commission (she has been a member since its inception in 2013) and the LGBT cultural competency training requirement for Massachusetts’ statewide network of 200,000 elder service providers (2018), for which she developed the interactive e-learning module ensuring training compliance. Krinsky is also a subject expert in the award-winning LGBTQ aging documentary Gen Silent, and a founding board member of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., developing The Pryde, in Boston, New England’s first LGBTQ friendly affordable senior housing.