Penny Cook

Penny Cook

Penny is the President and CEO of Pioneer Network, a 22-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to changing the culture of aging and the culture of long-term care. She began her career in New York as a social worker focusing on older adults in acute and post-acute settings and then moved to Colorado and worked in the policy and advocacy arenas as the Program Manager of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and as the Executive Director of the Colorado Culture Change Coalition. Most recently she was the Director of Long Term Services and Supports at Colorado Access, a non-profit health plan in Colorado. Penny is passionate about helping us all value and respect our own aging as well as those that we support.