At 32, Whiting followed in the footsteps of NAC Founder Gail Gibson Hunt to helm one of the nation’s leading public policy and advocacy organizations for friend and family caregivers. With previous experience as COO and Director of Strategic Partnerships, Whiting has doubled the budget of the organization in her tenure to date and created the Hunt Research Program. Whiting led the nation’s first national policy study of 1,400+ rare disease caregivers with Global Genes. She has led other original NAC research, including Sandwich Generation in the US with Caring Across Generations; A National Study of Caregivers of Individuals with Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and ImproveCareNow; Cancer Caregiving in the US with the National Cancer Institute and Cancer Support Community; and Dementia Caregiving in the US with the Alzheimer’s Association, among others.