By Alex Daniels, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 15, 2021
Coming to the office in July 2016 was like entering a void for C’Ardiss Gardner Gleser.
Over the course of three days that month, two Black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, had been shot dead by the police. Work at the Satterberg Foundation, where Gardner Gleser served as a program officer, hummed along as usual as she grieved in silence.
“I had to leave work because I couldn’t sit there and do nothing and be in this nothingness while people are murdering people who look like me and my son,” recalls Gardner Gleser, who was the first person of color to be employed at Satterberg and who now serves as the Seattle foundation’s director of programs and strategic initiatives.
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