M. Aaron Guest, PhD, MPH, MSW is a socio-environmental gerontologist whose research interests lie at the nexus of health, identity, and the social & built environments. He has served as Membership Chair (2017-2020), Chair-Elect (2020-2021), and Chair (2021-2023) of the LGBTQ Health Caucus. Aaron is an Assistant Professor of Aging within the Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging at the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Gerontology from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Public Health, a Master of Social Work, and Graduate Certificates in gerontology and health communication from the University of South Carolina. His research centers on how marginalized, particularly LGBTQ, rural older adults’ social networks affect their health and quality of life. Specifically, he focuses on the interrelationship between identity, place, networks, and health. He applies his interdisciplinary background as a community-based scholar to address health inequities, improve health equity, and improve health outcomes through decreasing disparities among rural older adults.