Glenn

Schneider

Glenn is a passionate, strategic, and skilled public health leader with extensive experience managing successful campaigns that improve lives. At the Horizon Foundation, Glenn leads a talented program and policy team that works side by side with community to build power, advocate for policy change and dismantle structural racism in Howard County and greater Maryland.

These coalition-led initiatives are making an impact. For example, Howard County Unsweetened successfully advocated for policies that make healthier food and drinks more widely available at parks, schools, government offices, community organizations and child care facilities. Nationally published peer-reviewed research found that local sugary drink sales have declined by 30 percent in Howard County due to these campaigns. Additionally, the Streets for All Coalition successfully advocated for more than $50 million in complete streets improvements over the past 6 years with priority given to underinvested neighborhoods of color. 

At the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy, Glenn is the Director of the Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force (PH-ACT) and it's National Consensus on Advocacy Instruction. In this role, Glenn and the Lerner Center team are working with the de Beaumont Foundation, in collaboration with other national and state public health organizations to 1) Gain consensus on the definition of public health advocacy;  2) Identify the essential advocacy skills needed to operationalize it; and 3) Draft guidance that could help schools and programs. Learn more here.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Glenn was a national consultant, executive director, community organizer, grassroots strategist and policy director in the government and nonprofit sectors. His work resulted in more than 40 new state and local laws and regulations across the nation that increased access to health care, protected the public’s health, raised tobacco prices, created smoke-free public places and cut youth access to tobacco.

Locally, Glenn was a key leader in efforts to make all Howard County public places smoke-free, pass the nation’s first regulations prohibiting youth access to indoor tanning beds, make healthy food and beverages more widely available, and guarantee that 1:1 mental health counseling was made available to all Howard County students during the school day. He's also helped secure millions of dollars in local public health investments and was a co-creator of the Healthy Howard Health Plan, a nationally acclaimed health care access program for the uninsured.

Glenn is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer and his work is featured in the book The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will into Political Power. Glenn has a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Pittsburgh and was named a Distinguished Graduate in 2002. He's currently a public health doctoral student at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He and his wife, Janice, live in Columbia and are the proud parents of two young men, Eric and Evan.