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Ellen Bruce, JD
Associate Director of the Gerontology Institute; Graduate faculty
ellen.bruce@umb.edu
(617) 287-7315
Office: Third floor, Wheatley, Room 122

For more information on our graduate programs, contact: gerontology@umb.edu

Associate Professor Ellen Bruce directs the Pension Action Center (www.pensionaction.org) and teaches law and public policy courses in the Gerontology Graduate Program. Her primary areas of interest are income security for older adults, older women, health and long-term care, and elder law.

In 1993 she founded the Pension Action Center, which houses the New England Pension Assistance Project and the National Pension Lawyers Project, as well as serves as a base for pension and retirement income research. The Center brings together services for participants, retirement income research, and policy work. Professor Bruce's work focuses on participant-related problems, including lost pensions, diminishing plan participation and survivor benefits as well as more general research on income security for older adults.

Professor Bruce is a graduate of Wellesley College and Northeastern University School of Law. Prior to coming to UMass Boston she was the senior managing attorney of Greater Boston Elderly Legal Services. She has served on many non-profit boards and is currently the Vice President of the national board of the Older Women's League and the immediate past president of Health Law Advocates, a non-profit, public interest health care law firm.