Southwest Region’s Glass Leadership Institute Reaching Young Constituents

Date: January 20, 2012

Members of ADL's Southwest Region Glass Leadership Institute (GLI) will be wrapping of a year of programs this spring designed to engage them and give them options for what they'd like to do with ADL in the future.  The GLI is a young leadership development program for ADL offered in more than 20 regions, made possible by the generous support of Shirley and the late Sherwin Glass of Atlanta, Georgia.

GLI participants attend ADL events and functions and special workshops that help acquaint them with the work of ADL.  The year culminates in the Shana Amy Glass National Leadership Conference, held each spring in Washington, D.C.

The year began for GLI members with a special orientation at the home of Karen and Jay Harberg.  Their son,  Michael Harberg, chairs this year's GLI group.

They heard about ADL's work tracking haters and extremists from ADL’s Southern Area Researcher in December.   The agency's Director of Government and National Affairs, Stacy Burdett, spoke to them this January. 

They will learn how ADL handles legal issues from Jeanne and Jerry Moore Southwest Area Counsel Justine Fanarof, and about ADL's International Work from Associate National Director/Director of International Affairs Michael Salberg, and they will travel to the Shana Amy Glass National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. in April.