About me
Kathy Stokes is a nationally recognized leader in the fraud arena. As Director of Fraud Prevention Programs with the AARP Fraud Watch Network, Kathy leads AARP’s social mission work to educate older adults on the risks that fraud represents to their financial security. Since 2019, she and her team have expanded AARP’s leadership in this space, by mounting a national campaign to change the narrative on how we talk about fraud victims and guiding an effort to fundamentally transform how our country addresses fraud. Kathy currently serves on the advisory council to the Board of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators and on the advisory council to the Senior Issues Committee of the North American Securities Administrators Association. Kathy also serves on a Federal Reserve Working Group on Scam Information Sharing.
