Judy Kugel

Columnist at Boston Globe

Judy Kugel currently is a columnist at The Boston Globe, writing regularly on issues related to aging. Retired from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government after a 33-year career in Student Services, most recently serving as Associate Dean of Students. She was a member of the Admissions Committees for thirty years. She has helped people to make life choices since 1970 when she co-founded the Boston Project for Careers, one of the first organizations to promote job-sharing for professionals.

Her personal essays and travel articles have appeared in major newspapers, magazines and on several websites. She has explored life transitions throughout her career and led several workshops on that subject. An avid writer of journals, she went public in 2008, when she started her twice-weekly blog at www.70-something.com Her latest post was her 1,627th.

A graduate of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Political Science, she holds an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College.

She is the author of 70-Something: Life, Love and Limits in the Bonus Years, published in May, 2017.