Selena Caldera

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Family caregiving, long-term care, health care, retirement income policy. ABOUT Selena Caldera, MPP, is senior strategic policy advisor at the AARP Public Policy

Institute, where her work focuses on family caregiving and long-term care in the United States. She has a special interest in understanding the diversity of caregiving experiences of

caregivers in service of developing more equitable and effective policies and programs for all family caregivers, as well as caregiving for people experiencing Alzheimer’s and related

dementia diagnoses. Before joining AARP, Caldera spent over a decade working on public policy issues including health care, education, child welfare, immigration, and retirement income

policy at a variety of organizations, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the Congressional Budget Office, the US Census Bureau, and Georgetown University. Her previous

experience also includes work on the local level as the senior strategy analyst for Central Health in Travis County, Texas, where she analyzed the health care services provided by Central

Health and the unmet health care needs in the county.   She is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin and holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University

and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. CONTACT Email: [email protected] X: https://twitter.com/scaldera LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/selenacaldera/ For 

media inquiries, call 202-434-2560 or e-mail [email protected].