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Happel, Christine

Happel, Christine

Assistant Director, Age-Friendly Innovation Center

happel.2@osu.edu

Bio

Christine is part of the Age-Friendly Innovation Center team. Their collaborative work with older adults, students, and community partners 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, they are 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