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Name: Carbonell, Josefina
Current Position: Previous Assistant Secretary
Josefina G. Carbonell, who was appointed Assistant Secretary for Aging by President Bush in 2001, was born in Cuba, emigrating to Miami, Florida in 1961. She attended Miami Dade Community College, studied Public Administration at Florida International University, and, with a Kellogg Fellowship in Health Management, graduated from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Then she spent nearly three decades working on improving the quality of life for Dade County Florida refugees and its elderly and handicapped, as a founder of the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers (LHANC).When she helped start it, it was a meal center for seniors. Since then it has grown into the largest aging health and nutrition project in Florida, and the largest Hispanic geriatric health and human services organization in the country. She served until the end of George W. Bush's presidency and then entered the private sector as senior vice president for long-term care for Independent Living Systems, LLC.
 
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