Executive Team
The Executive Team is the central governing and decision-making body of PEG.
Glenn E. Singleton President / CEO
"I do not see how we will ever solve the turbulent problem of race confronting our nation until there is an honest confrontation with it and a willing search for the truth and a willingness to admit the truth when we discover it."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education
University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
Stanford University, M.A., Education: Administration & Policy Analysis
Glenn Eric Singleton extended bio
Maureen Benson Chief Operating Officer
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Education
Emory University, B.A. in English and Education
UC Berkeley, M.Ed., Behring Fellow, Principal Leadership Institute
California Clear Teaching Credential, Secondary English
California Clear Administrative Credential
What calls me to this work?
As a proud product of New York City public schools and a teenage idealist, I moved to Atlanta in 1992 with the intention of pursuing law with an emphasis on being a public servant to those that had not been served by our society and its systems. However, in my sophomore year of college I read Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities and realized for the first time how dramatically different my educational experiences were from those less than 10 miles from me based on race and socio-economic status. While this outraged me, it also fueled me to engage in public service differently. After almost 20 years of service in public education, I feel even more strongly that we must engage tirelessly in our educational system with am emphasis on interrupting our personal and systemic perpetuation of historical racial disparities. Our children deserve no less than our continual evolution of will and growth in our skill, knowledge and capacity.
Diane Cowdery Chief Programming Officer
"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out."
-Arundhati Roy
Education
University of Minnesota, Journalism/Sociology
What calls me to this work?
I was called to social activism as a college student in the mid-1960's. The images and events of the civil rights movement had a profound impact on my emerging consciousness and it became impossible to close my eyes to the injustice around me and continue with business as usual. Through 30-plus years in public education, I am still guided by that early call to activism for social and racial justice. It continues to inspire my personal journey as a white racial equity leader and our collective work to challenge and transform the norms of white racial dominance in schools and society.
