[Wisdom of the Elders Participants]

A photograph of participants from the Wisdom of the Elders program in 2015. The program has been serving African American seniors at the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) Parks and Recreation’s Patterson Park Community Center since 2012. The program is led by Ifeoma Nwankwo, associate professor of English. She created Wisdom of the Elders, a combination public humanities program and health study, in academic partnership with William Turner, professor of human and organizational development, and James Powers, associate professor of medicine.