Staying Fit
Former AARP CEO Barry Rand and new AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins.
Miller Mobley
After five years serving as AARP's CEO, I am saying goodbye and turning over the leadership to Jo Ann Jenkins. I could not be more pleased that the board selected her for the job.
In 2010 Jo Ann was hired as president of AARP Foundation, and in March 2013 I hired her as AARP's chief operating officer. She has done a superb job in both positions. While she was COO at the Library of Congress before coming to AARP, she served on — and later chaired — the board of AARP Services Inc., our taxable subsidiary whose income supports AARP's social mission.
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She will be an excellent steward of the legacy of our founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, and a dynamic leader of AARP.
When I came to AARP in 2009, I decided we would focus our efforts in three areas: access to affordable, quality health care; financial security; and helping people live their best lives. How did we do?
It was an intense battle, but Congress adopted the Affordable Care Act, which now provides insurance to millions of people who previously did not have access to affordable health coverage. AARP has been instrumental in helping people understand the law and take advantage of the benefits it offers.
AARP has been vigilant — and successful — in reminding our elected officials just how important and necessary Social Security and Medicare are to people's lives. We successfully fought off attempts to make harmful cuts to these programs, in large part because you — our 37 million members — made your voices heard in Washington through the You've Earned a Say campaign.
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