ETA in the Community

ETA featured on Aging in America News (July 2026)
ETA featured on MyMCM (Montgomery County Media): MCPS students celebrate #ReadMoreMaryland at Governor’s Mansion (July 2026)
ETA featured on Alisa Tang’s Alisa’s Daily Dose Blog Post (July 2026)
ETA featured on Generations United newsletter – Volume 21 Issue 6 (March 2026)
ETA featured on Bethesda Magazine: How a Bethesda nonprofit helps children in foster care access essentials and more (March 2026)
Leah Bradley from Empowering the Ages featured on the Value of Wrinkles Podcast EP 97 (November 2025)
ETA featured as the Charity Spotlight in Kentlands/Lakelands Living magazine (August 2025)
ETA Celebrates a Joyful Milestone in our School Readiness Program: June 2025 graduations
Leah Bradley interviewed on 50+ in Montgomery County 249 (April 2025) tribute to Austin Heyman
ETA spotlighted on U. Maryland website for our work with them (March 24, 2025)
ETA featured in AARP Livable Communities Map (2025-2026)

Austin Heyman Community of a Lifetime Award, awarded to ETA Executive Director and Cofounder Leah Bradley, by the Montgomery County Commission on Aging (Dec 19, 2024)
ETA’s Cybermasters tech support project featured in MoCo360’s Morning Notes (Dec 19, 2024)
ETA’s Cybermasters tech support project featured on MyMCM (Montgomery County Media) — video and article (Dec 17, 2024)
ETA’s Cybermasters tech support project featured on Fox 5 DC at 4pm and 5pm (Dec 10, 2024)
ETA featured on The Senior Zone – Shawn Perry interviews Megan Tracy Benson (Aug 5, 2024)
ETA featured on MMCTV Solutions (Season 2, episode 4: Interview with Megan Tracy Benson (July 25, 2024)
Member, Worksource Montgomery Community Impact Advisory Committee (2024-2025)
Member, Maryland Mental Health and Aging Coalition (2024-2025)
Member, Gaithersburg Youth Opportunities Commission (2024-2025)
NonProfit Montgomery Board of Directors Vice Chair, and Chair of the Advocacy Committee (2024-2025), ETA Executive Director Leah Bradley
Mid-Atlantic Intergenerational Conference – Presenter (Leah Bradley, July 2024)
Montgomery County Summit on Aging, Group Facilitator (October 2023)
AARP Global Thought Leaders Conference (October 2023)
Montgomery College Non-Profit Institute Conference: Building Nonprofit Infrastructure to Strengthen Community Services (September 2023)
Generations United 22nd Global Intergenerational Conference – Presenters (July 2023)
ETA featured in Montgomery County Volunteer Center spotlight (2023)
Montgomery Moving Forward — Leadership Team member, Executive Director Leah Bradley (2022-2023)
ETA made a big impact in 2022-2023 — read our FY23 Organizational Summary
ETA featured on “50+ in Montgomery County” (County Cable Montgomery) — interview with Megan Tracy Benson (March 2023)
Co-Facilitator of NonProfit Montgomery’s Table for Ten for small non-profits (2022-2023)
“Decreasing Loneliness by Increasing Happiness” article by Leah Bradley in the Parish Times (Dec 2022)
Invited participant on Montgomery County’s End Childhood Hunger Strategic Plan Early Childhood Brainstorming Committee (July 2022 – December 2022)
The Basics – Advisory Committee, Collaboration Council — ETA staff Joslyne Decker, Member (2022-)
Yesterday Today Tomorrow, MyMC Media — Leah Bradley, panelist (March 2022)
ETA Crossing Paths featured in Catholic Standard article: “Don Bosco Cristo Rey: The School That Works” (Feb 2022)
Tikvat Israel Rosh Hodesh group — Leah Bradley, presenter (Feb 2022)
Black and Brown Coalition for Educational Equity and Excellence — Partner
Montgomery County’s Positive Youth Development Committee — member, Executive Director Leah Bradley (2021-2022)
Montgomery County’s Age-Friendly Civic and Social Involvement Committee — member, Executive Director Leah Bradley (2021-2022)
NonProfit Montgomery Advocacy Committee — member (2021-2022)
Montgomery Moving Forward ECE Workforce Advocacy Coalition member (2021-2022)
Montgomery County Volunteer Center & 50+ Network — Partner
Nonprofit Village Member Spotlight (July 2021)
Generations United Virtual Conference – Presenters (June 2021)
Leading Age Maryland & DC Conference — Presenters (June 2021)
AARP Maryland’s Lunch & Learn interviews the teens behind ETA’s Quick Quotes (Jan 2021)
ETA’s Year in Review (Dec 2020)
The Parish Times featured articles about ETA and Crossing Paths, by Chuck Short of the Justice and Advocacy Council and Father John Enzler of Catholic Charities DC (Dec 2020)
Leah Bradley was named a Drum Major for Education in The Leaving Out Report by Jeanette Dixon, MCPS Board of Education Member At-Large (Dec 2020)
Studio 501c3 on Montgomery County Media (MCM) — Interview/Featured Organization (Nov 8, 2020)
Montgomery Moving Forward 2020 Virtual Symposium — Speaker (Nov 5, 2020)
Leading Age Maryland Annual Conference — Presenters (Oct 6, 2020)
American Association of Service Coordinators (AASC) National Conference — Presenters (Sept 3, 2020)
Engage@HOME Interview With ETA Director Leah Bradley (Sept 2, 2020)
Thrive Global: “10 Organizations Connecting Generations During the Pandemic: Turns out that young people fear social isolation, too” (July 15, 2020)
NBC4 Harris’ Heroes: “Empowering the Ages Prevents Isolation During the Pandemic” (July 7, 2020)
Miami University Institute for Learning in Retirement: “Sharing Smiles: Pen Pals Needed!” (June 18, 2020)
Washington Jewish Week: “Seniors Spend Quarantine Putting Memories to Paper” (June 18, 2020)
Georgetown University Master of Science in Aging & Health program — guest speaker (April 2020)
SOAR Incubator Program, Nonprofit Village — Inaugural Cohort Participants (Jan-June 2020)
Juanita C. Grant Foundation Round Table Education Series: “An Intergenerational Conversation on Aging/Finding a Common Language” — Panelist (Nov 4, 2019)
ETA Launch: October 2019

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