Members of ADL Southwest’s 2023-2024 Glass Leadership Institute (GLI) graduated the same way they approached their time in GLI: with enthusiasm. Ten members of the class gathered together at a restaurant in Bellaire, Texas to celebrate what they had learned over their nine months in the program, and to talk about how they wanted to continue with ADL going forward.
ADL’s National Chair Ben Sax met with local movers and shakers, spoke about ADL’s work at an insider briefing, met with Southwest Regional staff and spoke at the agency’s May board meeting during a late-May three-day visit to Houston. Sax’s schedule included meetings with some well-known Houston citizens, inluding former Southwest Region Board Chairs and others. His packed itinerary also
ADL Southwest recognized three Houston-area educators with the 2024 Walter Kase Educator Excellence Award at its May 22 board meeting. Recipients included Tanglewood Middle School Theater Director Nikki Andrews, Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School Counselor Donna Bolden, and Rhodes School for the Performing Arts Counselor LaTonya White. They were selected based on their years of service as a
More than 860 people saw Shawn Raymond of leading trial law firm Susman Godfrey LLP receive the ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League’s) Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award at the Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award Luncheon April 18. As of the 18th, the luncheon had raised $878,000 for ADL’s Southwest Region. ADL Southwest presents this award annually to an outstanding member of the
In a time of incredible volatility on college campuses, ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Report CardTM is a new comprehensive tool that evaluates antisemitism on college and university campuses. Find out how schools are responding to and combatting antisemitism and protecting Jewish students.
