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Wayne Moore
AARP Director of Advocacy Planning and Issues Management |
Wayne Moore is the AARP Director of Advocacy Planning and Issues Management. He is responsible for managing a process which prioritizes AARP public policy issues and sets the goals, strategies and level of effort for each issue. He also serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the AARP Advocacy Group. Prior to this, Wayne served as the Co-administrator of the AARP Foundation, Director of the AARP Legal Advocacy Group and Executive Director of AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly over a span of 25 years. His primary accomplishments have included: (1) the establishment of a national network of state-wide legal hotlines which provide free legal advice to seniors; (2) leadership in a movement that resulted in the adoption of the hotline methodology by many legal aid programs in the U.S., thereby increasing services to the poor; (3) early leadership in testing and establishing a national network of programs that use volunteer lawyers to provide free legal services to the poor; (4) the establishment of a national network of programs that use volunteers to help manage the finances of incapacitated seniors; (5) the creation of AARP Legal Services Network which provides free and discounted legal services to AARP members and (6) the creation of the AARP Foundation Litigation Group that conducts impact litigation in areas of greatest concern to AARP members. He co-founded the National and International Conferences on Aging and Law and helped initiate the ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference.
He has written numerous articles and presented at many national and international conferences on the topics of elder law and legal services delivery. He has received several awards including the NLADA Award for Innovations in Equal Justice and the ABA Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access. He serves or has served on a wide variety of ABA Committees and task forces and on the boards of several national legal services organizations including serving as President of the American Prepaid Institute.