Andrea Gilats

Andrea Gilats, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher whose books are RADICAL ENDURANCE: Growing Old in an Age of Longevity (2024), AFTER EFFECTS: A Memoir of Complicated Grief (2022), both published by the University of Minnesota Press, and RESTORING FLEXIBILITY: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age (Ulysses Press, 2015). After serving for twenty years as the founding director of the University of Minnesota’s legendary Split Rock Arts Program, Gilats created and directed two pioneering lifelong learning programs for older adults, LearningLife and Encore Transitions: Preparing for Post-Career Life, which received national recognition for its holistic approach to envisioning life after work.