Kirsten Cruikshank

Kirsten Cruikshank is a community-based researcher for the Memory Keeper’s Medical Discovery Team UMN Medical School - Duluth Campus, working on the Community Engaged Rural Dementia and Alzheimer's Research (CERDAR Projects). She has a Masters in Social Work degree from UMD and a background in community-based work with older adults and family caregivers. Kirsten was the Director of a rural nonprofit home and community based services organization for fifteen years, helping older adults live independently. She has also worked with the Arrowhead Area Agency on Aging (AAA) on service development, and administered Older Americans Act supportive services grants. She lives in rural Lake County.