Joanna Mendelson, ADL Associate Director of our Center on Extremism spoke to board members at the March 24 board meeting about the landscape of extremism and hate, and she began with saying in her 20 years at ADL, it never has been so busy. She said we’re in a climate now where extremists have become emboldened. They openly display their

Amy Iandiorio joined ADL as an Investigative Researcher in November 2019. In her role at the Center on Extremism her areas of focus include white supremacist groups, Incels, and the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement. She is based in the Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta and serves as a resource for the Southern Division.    

Six powerful women participated in the ADL Womens Initiative Women’s Summit on International Women’s Day. ADL’s Southwest Region partnered with the Houston Rockets to feature a panel of speakers who each had broken the glass ceiling and continue to inspire women to strive for recognition and equity. The panel, moderated by AT&T Sportsnet Anchor Julia Morales, included former WNBA champion

March 2 marked the graduation of six members of the Southwest Region’s Glass Leadership Institute (GLI) in what was an unusual year, to say the least. GLI is designed to empower young leaders to fight bigotry and bias and gives them the opportunity to get an inside look at ADL and what it does in the fight against hate. This

ADL’s Senior Vice President of International Affairs, Sharon Nazarian, spoke before the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston March 4.   Part of her job is monitoring and countering global antisemitism, so she was well-positioned to talk about why it seems to be on the rise around the world, and what ADL is doing to prevent it and combat it. She