Gloria Walton

Gloria is President and CEO of Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), a South L.A.-based community organization widely recognized as a leader in the development of cutting-edge strategies to ensure that black and brown, poor and working-class communities have an equal voice in the democratic process. Gloria has led the organizing effort for SCOPE’s green jobs programs where SCOPE pioneered a replicable model that couples entry level positions with job training to create career pathways into good, green jobs, targeted for workers in low-income neighborhoods. Gloria is a recent recipient of a James Irvine Foundation Fund for Leadership Advancement grant and was named one of Liberty Hill Foundation’s Leaders to Watch in 2011. She also serves on the Board of Directors of California Calls, the Coordinating Committee of the Black Worker Center, and is a Founding Advisory Board member of a national collaborative known as BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity).