Sarah Kate Ellis is the current president and CEO of GLAAD. Ellis took reign in 2014 when GLAAD was in a crisis. Ellis states "As a woman with two children and a wife, I couldn't imagine a world where my kids grew up without GLAAD. It had done such unbelievable work and created such a powerful platform..."[1]
With Ellis's leadership, GLAAD's revenue grew by 38%. Ellis ran a fundraiser in San Francisco that ranked in 1 million dollars. Ellis states "GLAAD has never been in a better position" followed by "in other social movements, the cultural work falls off, and you look at the challenges we're seeing today in Black Lives Matter and women's issues. It's important that you continue pushing and changing hearts and minds."[1]
Ellis hired Nick Adams as director of the transgender media program in 2015. Adams states "What I really appreciate from Sarah Kate's leadership--she's been thinking about the future and where the world will be for GLAAD in a post-marriage-equality environment."[1]
Spirit Day
In 2010, GLAAD launched Spirit Day. Spirit Day is an annual national day of action to show LGBTQ youth that they are not alone because there is plenty of support all around them.[2]
In 2016, Spirit Day is the world's largest and most-visible anti-bullying campaign.[2]
The campaign works to bring anti-bullying resources to classrooms all around the world by inspiring educators to take action against bullying through hosting events and rallies. The campaign also created a GLAAD's Spirit Day kit for use in classrooms, which is available in 6 languages.[2]
On social media, people are encouraged to wear purple or go purple online in order to stand united against bullying. Huge media companies such as NBC Universal and Viacom show support for Spirit Day on the airwaves. They even change their on-air logo to purple for the day. They also enlist talent who wear purple during the day's broadcast.[2]
More than 1.5 billion media impressions annually are seen in support of the campaign. The hashtag #Spirit Day has become a trending topic on Twitter and Facebook every year. On social media, people such as Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and even President Barack Obama have shown their support for the campaign.[2]
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- Hi Sinnamorato : This is really great work! I like how you've used the source you found to illustrate the picture of GLAAD's CEO. I tried to click on the citation from off-campus and was taken to SFC's library login page. If you could, please include the information about the source (date published, author, article title, etc.) and also see if you can find a permanent link that you can post as well. Looking forward to seeing how you continue to develop this article. Best, Prof.bgreg (talk) 10:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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- Hello Sinnamorato : This sounds like an excellent contribution to your assigned article! Your information about the current CEO of GLAAD is vitally important to the cohesive analysis of this Wikipedia page. My only recommendations would be to expand on the quotes you added. Don't expand to the point when you are twisting their words but just enough for the reader to have a better understanding of the context from which the dialogue was taken. I would also change "38 percent" to "38 %" for reading comprehension and aesthetic purposes. Lastly, when you speak about Ellis's various accomplishments, I would use "also" or "later" to break up the sentences so that they feel less like a list and more like a paragraph. Nice job, Timothy Cecere (talk) 02:22, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
==Okay, thanks- I will take into consideration your review. I don't think expanding on the quotes will help because I don't want to interpret it the wrong way. The rest I will do now. Sinnamorato (talk) 15:35, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
- ^ a b c Setoodeh, Ramin (Sept. 27, 2016). "The woman who saved GLAAD: how Sarah Kate Ellis brought the faltering nonprofit into the 21st century". nn9yl5wf5d.search.serialssolutions.com. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d e Adams, Seth (August 2016). "GLAAD hopes to stem bullying of LGBTQ youth on Spirit Day". nn9yl5wf5d.search.serialssolutions.com. Retrieved 2017-10-27.