AEUJ Board of Directors
Jonathan Rose, PhD
Linda F. Fancher serves on the Care Giving Committee. In addition, she currently facilitates for the 50+ Group, which is an All Elders sponsored community group.
Linda has a diverse professional background, having held positions in human services management and higher education student services. She has also been a consultant with Blue Cross BlueShield, North Point Health and Wellness Center and other organizations primarily working on issues of community development and inclusion.
My Story, by Jonathan Rose
I have always been an advocate for justice, even when I did not realize that I was. Normally an introvert, my other self comes out whenever injustice rears its head.
I grew up in a culture that highly revered and valued the elderly. As a professional scientist in the corporate world, I instinctively sought out the wisdom of those with more years and more experience. My best stores of learning and wisdom came not at universities but as I listened to and learned from elders on the job and in the community.
It is painful to see a wealthy society become so indifferent and negligently abusive of the elderly. Living in black and African immigrant communities, I see this indifference, negligence, and prejudicial actions occur frequently, and the elderly are often powerless to act on their own behalf. I see and hear stories of people unable to bear the financial cost of health care, or the emotional cost of Ageism and racial injustices.
About 15 years ago, my mother was victimized by health care providers, and her health got worse, and but for vigorous intervention by the family, she would have deteriorated and passed away in untimely fashion.
I am grateful to be part of All Elders as we advocate to prevent harm and to empower the powerless.
Executive Director
Jonathan currently serves as the executive director of All Elders United for Justice.
He worked with the late Vic Rosenthal, founder of All Elders,
to build the organization and create its strategic vision.
Jonathan is also the executive director of West African Collaborative, an organization representing
multiple immigrant communities in Minnesota.
A retired engineer from 3M Company, Jonathan has for multiple decades been active in advocating
for justice and equity for black communities and for seniors.
His social research efforts include publications in health disparities, commercial tobacco control, autism,
and census demographics.
Bill Moore, Minnesota AFL-CIO Retiree Council
Laura Trujillo
Julia Wolfe has led the Healthy Aging Initiative of Saint Paul - Ramsey County Public Health since 2016. The Initiative’s goals are to eliminate racial and health disparities to enable residents to age in healthy, culturally relevant ways. The Initiative’s work is based in relationships and partnerships with communities in Ramsey County.
She holds a Master of Science in Applied Anthropology from the University of North Texas and a Master of Education in Human Development from the University of Maryland.
Her life and career are guided by the Jewish value of tikkun olam (repairing the world).
Alex Smith
Eric Won - Housing/Communication
Mridula Langlie
Dr. Fatima Lawson is an esteemed educator and leader with over thirty years of experience
and deep dedication to education.
With a strong focus on strategic leadership, effective teaching, program design and innovation, she demonstrates great skills in leading schools and driving change for the betterment of the community that she serves.
Her career is marked by many firsts and initiatives, among them starting a successful language immersion school, taking a failing school out of corrective action, and starting a polytechnic program in an elementary school.
Ronald Johnson - Care Giving Committee
Fr. Ronald Johnson became interested in All Elders United for Justice in the winter of 2022 when we were all recovering from the Covid Pandemic, and when he had yet to find communities of elder friends to serve. Always interested in the richness of community,
he readily came to appreciate the diversity in its membership as it sought to tackle the complex and ever-evolving issues facing today's aging population. Currently serving two communities whose residents could not be more diverse, he continues to find challenge and growth as each day greets him, and he continues to be enriched by the experience. In keeping with that theme, he looks forward to the days and weeks to come, and all that we might do and learn together as we work to advance the cause of those much older and wiser than ourselves.
Kenneth McInness
Monstuer M. Herring
Nelda Goodman
Metric Giles
Mimie Mogaka - Caregiving
Mary Theurer - Board Chair
