Gerontologist

Certified Pilates Instructor + Community Designer


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Ms. Fuentes’ research areas of interest are agelessness, healthy lifespans, active aging, living better longer, life design, live review, SuperAgers, aging in communities of color, “Vintage Babes” and rebranding aging.

She facilitates workshops on conscious aging, advises older adults on life transitioning strategies and life planning. She hosts The AfroBoomers’ Salon, an online community for Baby Boomers of African descent in addition to his one.

She owns and operates Perfect Parts Pilates, a boutique studio that offers instruction in the classical method of Pilates to the 50+ community.

She is a collector of vintage photographs, magnifying glasses and cobalt blue glass.


“When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground.”

—Dagbari proverb