Glennda Testone Named Executive Director of the Center
Glennda Testone
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center has been engaged in a national search for a new Executive Director for the past six months. We are thrilled to announce that the Center’s Board of Directors unanimously chose Glennda Testone to be the Center’s new executive director. Glennda is a dynamic, vibrant, smart and charismatic leader who will be at the forefront of the next generation of our work and the LGBT movement. Quite simply, she is the bold, exciting choice we were hoping to find when we began this process.
When asked about taking on this new endeavor, Glennda said, “At a time when the opportunities and challenges faced by our community are limitless, the Center is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of LGBT people. I am honored and excited to lead the Center in providing the kind of thriving, nurturing community that we all want to come home to. It is an ambitious goal, but my commitment to serving the LGBT community, the passion of the people involved and the possibilities for this institution are also limitless.”
Throughout her career, Glennda has been a leader in the fields of social justice for women and LGBT people. Glennda joins the Center from The Women’s Media Center (WMC), founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to make women visible and powerful in the media, where she served as Vice President for three years and created and launched the highly successful Progressive Women’s Voices media training program. The Progressive Women’s Voices program is responsible for providing media and leadership training for many of the progressive movement’s preeminent leaders.
Prior to WMC, Glennda led the Program Division as the Senior Director of Media Programs at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). During her six years at GLAAD, Glennda played a pivotal role in key milestones in LGBT media activism, most notably leading the team that persuaded The New York Times in 2003 to change its longstanding policy to include same sex couples on its wedding pages. Glennda has served as a spokesperson for GLAAD and for the LGBT movement, appearing on CNN, FOX News, and MSNBC, and print-media outlets such as The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Time Out and W.
For more information about this exciting announcement, please click here. We are planning many events to introduce you to Glennda. Stay tuned for opportunities to welcome Glennda to the Center family. I know you will be as inspired by her as we are.
Sincerely,
Bruce Anderson
Board President
