Chad is the Manager of Pitkin County Senior Services in Aspen, Colorado. He oversees the daily and strategic operations of the county department. He also serves as an Adjunct Instructor of Gerontology at Western Colorado Community College, in Grand Junction, Colorado. He hails from Wisconsin, where after completing his undergraduate degree, he came to Colorado for graduate study in Religious Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. After which, he continued his graduate work at the University of Northern Colorado, where he earned his degree in Gerontology. In 2020, Chad started his PhD study at Concordia University Chicago in Gerontology.
Chad's Gerontology research interests include Ageism, local and public policy, Alzheimer's Disease, spiritual care for those with memory loss, ethics and aging, senior centers, gerontological education and rural aging.