Susan Glisson
2024 ALI Fellow

Susan M. Glisson brings to ALI experience in non-profit leadership. Susan is the founding executive director of the Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi, Susan facilitated transformative change in communities with the most notorious histories of racial violence. She helped achieve the first state conviction in the last major civil rights cold case, the equitable reordering of public monies, and the teaching of accurate history. Her lauded community building process, The Welcome Table, weds trust-building and healing to reckoning with and repair of the past. Most recently, Glisson guided the first reconciliation dialogues between enslaved and free descendants of Arlington House, Robert E. Lee’s plantation. Glisson’s work empowers divided groups to create inclusive, just futures with shared prosperity and dignity for all.