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Tanie M. Sherman is a full time PhD student at Arizona State University’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and also a Hartford Scholar in the Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Master’s Degree in Business from Arizona State University. She is a member of the American Nurses’ Association, Arizona Nurses’ Association, Gerontological Society of America, and the Arizona Organization of Nurse Executives. Ms. Sherman serves as the co-chair of the Arizona Action Coalition’s Workforce Data Committee, seeking a sustainable infrastructure to meet Arizona’s healthcare workforce needs. Ms. Sherman’s career commitment to the care of older adults has focused on evaluation of standards of care in the community and hospital settings, collaborative projects with community stakeholders related to older adult healthcare advocacy, and healthcare policy. Her specific area of research concentration is healthy aging through cardiovascular disease risk reduction in older adults, focusing on older women. Her dissertation research will include a feasibility study targeting motivation to increase daily movement (non-exercise activity thermogenesis—N.E.A.T), and decrease overall daily sitting time in women at risk for cardiovascular disease.