Former Commissioner of Social Security Joins SCSA Board of Directors
For Immediate Release – May 13, 2010
Denver, Colorado
The Society of Certified Senior Advisors is pleased to welcome Dorcas R. Hardy as a newly appointed member of the Society of Certified Senior Advisors Board of Directors. Ms. Hardy is President of DR Hardy & Associates, a government relations and public policy firm serving clients in the health services, disability insurance and financial industries. Ms. Hardy speaks and writes about domestic and international retirement financing issues and entitlement program reforms. She is the author of Social Insecurity: The Crisis in America’s Social Security System and How to Plan Now for Your Own Financial Survival. She consults with seniors’ organizations, public policy groups and businesses to promote redesign and modernization of the Social Security and Medicare systems.
Ms. Hardy’s experiences include:
- U.S. Commissioner of Social Security from 1986 to
- 1989 Assistant Secretary of Human Development Services for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Assistant Secretary of Health and Welfare, State of California
- Service on the Social Security Advisory Board, Wright Investors Service Managed Funds and Board of Directors of the following: The Options Clearing Corporation, First Coast Service Options and the University of Mary Washington
- Founder of her own primetime weekly television program, “Financing Your Future”
- Host of “The Senior American,” an NET political program for older Americans
- Writer and Advisor to Stroke Magazine
- Member of the Society of Certified Senior Advisors
Ms. Hardy received her B.A. from Connecticut College, her M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and completed the Executive Program in Health Policy and Financial Management at Harvard University and the Financial Planning Certification.
About SCSA
SCSA’s mission is to educate professionals to work more effectively with their senior clients. For those who work with seniors, this means understanding the key health, social and financial factors that are important to seniors—and how these factors work together. CSAs are able to integrate this into their professional practices, no matter what field they’re in. They’ve learned how incredibly gratifying it is to help seniors achieve their goals, and the seniors they’ve worked with have learned how important it is to work with someone who truly understands their age-related circumstances. For more information about SCSA and its educational course, please visit www.csa.us.
Contact:
Erica Ananich, SCSA
(888) 538-2599
society@csa.us
www.csa.us/blog
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