"I grew up in South Central Los Angeles. The community changed quite a bit over the decades, and a month before I graduated from UC Berkeley, the Los Angeles riots happened, and I came back home."  reminisces our guest Dr. Patricia Jones, Director, Office of Special Populations, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health. In this candid conversation, Dr. Jones traces her trajectory from her humble beginnings all the way to the NIH. "Coming from a very humble background, I was working and I couldn't afford to not work and be a full-time student.I was also the caregiver of my mother, who was in poor health and really the head of the household at that time" she describes. Join us to learn about Dr. Jones leadership secrets.