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Rita B. Choula, BS

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Rita Choula, AARP

Rita Choula, BS

Rita Choula is a Project Administrator with the AARP Public Policy Institute's Office of Strategic Initiatives.  Ms. Choula manages a caregiver initiative, funded by major foundations, that seeks to provide nurses and social workers with tools to better support family caregivers across settings.  She focuses on the areas of assessing the needs of diverse family caregivers and the development and implementation of caregiver assessment, support and services at federal, state and local levels.

Prior to working at AARP, she worked as a corporate researcher in the health and information technology sectors and as an assistant principal of a Pre K-8 school.  She holds a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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