Jane Fleishman, PhD, MEd, MS

Jane Fleishman, PhD, MEd, MS, is a writer, award-winning educator, sexuality researcher, and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator. She earned her M.Ed. and Ph.D. at Widener University Center for Human Sexuality Studies. She is on a mission to promote the sexual wellness in older adults and doesn't shy away from the difficult and complex realities of making that happen. She focuses on the contradictions around ageism, sexism, racism, ableism, and other ways that people get placed on the margins. Her curious nature led to her latest accomplishment, The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging which recently won a coveted Nautilus Book Award. She co-hosts a regular podcast on sex about sex in the second half of life, which she calls Our Better Half. And she recently completed a popular TEDx talk, Is It OK for Grandma to Have Sex? In 2000, Jane received Governor's Service Award in Healing of Racism; in 2015, a Graduate Scholar Award from the Aging and Society Knowledge Community; and in 2016, the William R. Stayton Award for Leadership in the field of human sexuality. She is the proud mother of two really fabulous young people and lives in Northampton, MA with her partner. You can reach her at www.janefleishman.com.