IUP’s Office of Social Equity and Title IX sponsored the attendance of IUP administrators and students at the 2025 Eradicate Hate Global Summit, held September 15, 16, and 17 in Pittsburgh.
Front row, from left: Elise Glenn, Melanie Duncan, Darcy Mossholder, Taylor Serrano, and Deslyn Beade. Back row, from left: Marcia Briscoe, Jake Starek, Seth Cooper, Roger Briscoe II, Hunter Bash, and Blanton Tolbert.
IUP Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Elise Glenn attended the event and coordinated the IUP group that attended, which included Assistant Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Melanie Duncan, Executive Director of Student Inclusion Roger Briscoe II, and Navigator Marcia Briscoe.
IUP student participants were Hunter Bash, Deslyn Beade, Seth Cooper, Darcy Mossholder, Taylor Serrano, Jake Starek, and Blanton Tolbert. Mossholder is a graduate assistant in IUP’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life; Serrano is president of the University Greek Council and is a member of AKA fraternity.
“It was an outstanding experience for all of us,” Glenn said. “The highlight of the event was Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s keynote lecture, addressing our shared responsibility to reject political violence,” she said.
The Eradicate Hate Global Summit was formed as a response to the October 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, when a gunman murdered 11 Jews and injured others worshiping there.
The Eradicate Hate Global Summit held its first conference in fall 2021 and featured almost 100 speakers from around the globe. The second conference in September 2022 attracted more than 260 speakers and more than 1,600 people in attendance, either in person or virtually. The number of speakers and attendees continues to increase each year.
The Summit’s annual conference is designed to break down silos to bring together the world’s leading anti-hate experts from many disciplines and sectors, including representatives from public policy organizations; tech and platform companies; federal, state, and local government and law enforcement; the military and veterans; judges and lawyers; doctors and other mental health professionals; educators and students; academic researchers and data scientists; journalists and film-makers; and former members of hate groups. They are inspired to collaborate and develop new solutions to prevent hate-motivated violence by the personal experiences of survivors and victims’ families whose voices are heard at the conference.
The Summit has an ongoing Working Group structure designed to develop workable solutions; at each annual Summit, the Working Groups present the results of their year-long work and will plot the specific ongoing work for the year to come.
“The reports from the Working Groups also were inspiring, showcasing that by working together and breaking down silos, meaningful progress can be made,” Glenn said.
International participants include the United Nations Special Advisor on Prevention of Genocide, along with foreign government representatives, civil society organizations, and researchers from around the globe, including Australia, Canada, Europe, the UK, and New Zealand.