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Happel, Christine

Happel, Christine

Assistant Director, Age-Friendly Innovation Center

happel.2@osu.edu

Bio

Christine, part of the Age-Friendly Innovation Center team, focuses on collaborative work with older adults, students, and community partners that furthers the mission of AFIC to ensure inclusion and build resiliency to make communities more age-friendly.

Christine was the founding Director of Village in the Ville and helped grow the Village Movement in Central Ohio. Through numerous transportation, emergency response, intergenerational, and community-driven initiatives they co-created, alongside older adults, opportunities for deeper community connection and reciprocity.

In addition to their work roles, Christine is an avid gardener, cyclist, collector of hobbies, and cat lover.

Education

MSW - The Ohio State University, 2014
BA - The Ohio State University, 2009 - Psychology, Sociology