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Ramsey Alwin

Senior Director, Economic Security Initiative

Areas of Expertise

• Economic Security for Seniors
• Home Equity and Reverse Mortgages

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Ramsey Alwin

Biography

Ramsey Laine Alwin is responsible for launching and leading a national, multi-site direct service demonstration that focuses on putting vulnerable and disadvantaged older adults on a pathway to economic security using an integrated service delivery approach.

Alwin’s efforts inform NCOA’s public policy agenda and have resulted in the creation of NCOA’s Savvy Saving Seniors™ financial education lessons and the development of a new online tool titled “EconomicCheckUp™.”

During her career, Alwin has worked with federal agency officials, Congressional staff, local agency authorities, and other national associations to promote an economic security framework. She is certified in alternative dispute resolution and mediation by Youth Alternatives, a nonprofit social services and mental health care organization.

Alwin has completed the U.S. DHHS sponsored National Community Action Management Academy and the national Peer-to-Peer Results Oriented Management and Accountability training program. She was recently nominated and inducted into the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Prior to arriving at NCOA, Alwin served as Director of National Economic Security Programs at Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), where she launched the Elder Economic Security Initiative. She also coordinated a national policy advocacy strategy for working families—the Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Project.

Before arriving at WOW, Alwin spent six years in the research, training, and advocacy division of the National Association of State and Community Service Programs (NASCSP) working on low-income issues and representing the Governor’s interests in the Community Services Block Grant, LIHEAP, and Weatherization.

Alwin served on the Workplace Flexibility 2010 Task Force on Phased Retirement at Georgetown University’s Law Center and the Advisory Board of the U.S. Administration on Aging sponsored by the National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment at NCOA. Alwin was also a reviewer for AARP Foundation’s Women’s Scholarships.

Alwin is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Advocates for The Other America.

She holds an undergraduate degree in secondary education and sociology from Simmons College.