Riley King

Riley King is a sixth-year PhD candidate who focuses on older adult health. Her research in this area began during their master’s thesis, where she examined the effects of news sources on Covid-19 related stress during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. This has expanded into an interest in generally aging successfully, aging in place, long term care facilities, older adult diets, food insecurity, and financial and digital literacy. She has served on a variety of public health projects with diverse topics spanning from addiction to nursing facilities, which has served to nurture her determination to lend her aid to the public social support networks already in place.

Riley earned her Master’s in Sociology at the University of Georgia. While she was not trained in clinical social work, she uses her insight from the sister field to inform her ethical and methodological standards for the social work projects she engages in.