Caitlin Hawke (she/her) earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in French and Archaeology. She spent several seasons excavating in the southwest of France studying the Upper Paleolithic era and cave art. Her career to date has been focused on public health, first on infectious diseases and then on aging. Currently she is the Associate Director, Programming, at the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, a university-wide center based on Columbia's medical campus. There she builds interdisciplinary aging research networks among university scientists. She has worked as a community organizer in her Upper West Side neighborhood of Bloomingdale and is fascinated by the history of Bloomingdale and of its progressive, grassroots organizations, businesses and residents. In no particular order, her favorite hobbies include family genealogy, occasionally contributing to the West Side Rag, and the study of Bob Dylan.