The DTL Open Forum is coming up on February 22nd at 11:00 am EST.
Join your DTL fellow students as we review new program details, share upcoming events, and hear from one of our own Alumni members about how she has used her DTL degree in her profession. Feel free to ask questions and have an open discussion with the Program Director, faculty, staff and fellow students. It is an opportunity to network with highly qualified and impactful leaders from around the world. The session will be recorded.
Zoom info:
Zoom link: https://bgu.zoom.us/j/86908916627
Meeting ID: 869 0891 6627
Find your local number: https://bgu.zoom.us/u/kd3IVFAsGg
Our guest speaker will be BGU alum, Dr. Jody Veler.
Dr. Jody Veler is a public sector professional with over twenty years of experience in the field of community economic development. Dr. Veler holds a B.S. in Nonprofit Management, and an M.S. in Community Economic Development and has recently received her Doctorate of Transformational Degree from Bakke Graduate University. Her dissertation was on the glass cliff phenomenon in which women and people of Color are hired for leadership positions in circumstances where the rate of failure is high.
Dr. Veler has worked in a wide range of nonprofit organizations gaining knowledge in a variety of subject matters including human services, housing development, urban agriculture, youth services and grant writing and management.
Dr. Veler currently works as a grant manager for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and as a part-time adjunct Professor at City Vision University specializing in leadership and cultural transformation courses. Dr. Veler has spent her career working in distressed communities and now calls Salem City, New Jersey, her home. Salem City is a very small historic city with very large problems. Listed as the second most distressed city in the State of New Jersey, the city has high rates of crime and poverty and low rates of employment and education. In 2021, in true glass cliff fashion, Dr. Veler became the first woman, and the first woman of Color to ever be elected to the position of Mayor of Salem City.