A Common Ground

Evan Glass is executive director of Gandhi Brigade Youth Media, a Montgomery County program that teaches teenagers to use media as tools for greater civic engagement. Before leading Gandhi Brigade Youth Media, Evan spent 12 years as a CNN journalist covering Congress, national politics and the 2008 presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain. He is also a community leader in Montgomery County, having served as chair of the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board, president of two civic associations and an appointed member of the Nighttime Economy Task Force.