Evelyn López joins CENIE: expanding the conversation is a strategic decision

At CENIE, we’ve spent years working to ensure longevity stops being seen as a “topic for older people” and is understood for what it is: a complete social transformation. But there’s a blind spot that can’t be fixed with more reports: the way we tell our story. And that’s were bringing in new voices is not an editorial gesture—it’s about strengthening CENIE’s intellectual framework.

That’s why Evelyn López joins Miradas de la Longevidad, as a communicator, teacher, and researcher specializing in longevity, well-being, and active aging, with a positive and intergenerational perspective.

Anyone who has read her contributions in La Vanguardia will immediately recognize her signature: storytelling with real people + conversation with experts + social engagement. On the one hand, Evelyn portrays long lives without infantilizing or idealizing: stories in which age is not presented as withdrawal, but as continuity, character, and connection. There is, for example, the profile of Inés (80), where purpose, humor, and community appear as factors as decisive as any clinical guidance. Or the interview with Ana María Palet (100), a serene—and by no means naïve—look at time, family, habits, and cultural change.

On the other hand, her work moves naturally toward the systemic level. When she speaks with Ken Stern, the focus is not “how to live longer,” but how to reorganize work, retirement, relationships, and life meaning in societies that have gained decades of life. And when she interviews physician and health manager Jordi Varela, she puts a key idea on the table for the future: health is not decided only in the doctor’s office; social determinants—the “zip code,” inequality, and community—matter a great deal.

That combination—everyday life + a structural perspective—is especially valuable for CENIE, because it connects with the conversation we want to open: longevity as biography, but also as territory, labor market, and public culture. In her texts, themes appear that are already at the heart of this agenda: senior talent and second careers (and the friction with a labor market that pushes people out); loneliness and meaning as social challenges—not “age-related issues”; or health communication with a clear, practical approach, such as her pieces on sleep, rhythms, and habits.

In Views on Longevity, Evelyn will bring precisely that: the ability to translate complexity without trivializing it, to broaden the frame without losing the reader, and to put words—and lived experience—on what we sometimes discuss only in technical terms.

Plainly: if longevity is going to redraw society, we need evidence… and a responsible public narrative. And that’s why adding voices like Evelyn’s means strengthening the bridge between knowledge and citizenship.