Mike Festa

Mike Festa is state director of AARP Massachusetts, based in Boston, which serves 800,000 members age 50+ in the commonwealth.

He was also an adjunct professor at Suffolk University, Graduate School of Public Management.

His resignation as Secretary of Elder Affairs was announced by the Governor's Office on January 31, 2009.

Festa ran for Middlesex County District Attorney in 2007 but dropped out of the race.

Other activities: Festa is married to Sandra Festa (since 1980), with two children: Michael, a computer engineer and founder of 3XR, Wakefield, Massachusetts, who graduated from George Washington University in 2006, and Danielle, a painter, graphic artist and web-designer, who graduated from UMASS Amherst in 2007.