Dr. Adela Ghadimi, 2024-2025 CSWG Chair, is in her fifth year of service on the CSWG and serving a second term as Chair. She is the Executive Director for United Faculty of Florida, leading organizing strategies and efforts across the state for 25,000 faculty and 8,000 graduate assistants across 34 chapters.  She engages in additional union work with affiliates FEA, NEA, and AFT. She is also a doctoral candidate in the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. Adela is in the inaugural cohort of the Obama Leaders USA program, where she partners with other leaders of excellence from across the country to accelerate positive and lasting change in their communities while strengthening participatory democracy. The proud daughter of immigrants, Adela is the first in her family to be born in the US and has always taken great pride in wanting to serve others in any way she can. Above all, equity and inclusion encompass everything she does, whether performing diversity training for nonprofits and union leaders through consulting work through her LLC, or within her doctoral research. Before beginning her doctoral work and relocating to Tallahassee, Adela lived in Washington, DC, and worked in education policy and government relations. She has prior professional experience in nonprofits, grassroots organizing, and political campaigns. Adela was a 2021 fellow of the US Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) Next Gen Global Leaders Network and now serves the state of Florida USGLC board. Local community engagement is incredibly important to her. She previously chaired a CSWG committee for three years. Adela previously served on the Tallahassee Affordable Housing Commission and completed service on the 2020 Leon County Complete Count Census Committee. Adela serves on the National Board of Directors of the New Leaders Council (NLC), a national nonprofit focused on training and uplifting proximate place-based leaders across industry and sector in communities nationwide. Before serving on the NLC Board of Directors, Adela served two years as a Vice Chair of NLC’s NPC, two years as National Advancement Co-Chair, was the Chapter Director of NLC Tallahassee, and remains a LEAD Trainer, traveling every January to train new fellows across the country as they start their fellowship year. Adela recently finished up her Doctoral program at Florida State University in Summer 2024 and has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics in International Relations. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Miami, where she triple majored in International Studies, Political Science, and Geography. She has an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard University.