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Glenda Glover, who ended her decade as president of Tennessee State University this year, has a new role: leading the outreach to historically Black colleges and universities for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“I worked on her Senate campaign. I was among her first supporters when she ran in 2020,” Glover said. “She is so eminently qualified to be president of the United States.”
Glover will be working as a volunteer for the campaign.
In 2022, Harris delivered the commencement address at TSU. Harris and Glover are also both members of Kappa Alpha Kappa, the Black sorority founded in 1908. Glover served as the national president of the sorority from 2018 to 2022.
“Glenda Glover is a trusted national leader who has deep relationships with HBCUs, HBCU presidents and HBCU alumni,” said Trey Baker, a senior advisor on the Harris campaign. “It is a no-brainer that the vice president would count on Dr. Glover to help with engaging this vital community of voters.”
Glover spent a decade leading TSU, the public HBCU in Nashville, and she is both an accountant and a lawyer. But she has been involved in politics since 1974, when she led the youth initiative for the congressional campaign of Harold Love Sr.
“I grew up in a Civil Rights home in Memphis, in a political home,” she said.
Among HBCU leaders, Glover is well regarded as an advocate for Black higher education. Her time at TSU, however, ended in a confrontation with Republican lawmakers that led to the replacement of the school’s board of trustees.
Glover will be working both with HBCU alumni and the schools to organize voter mobilization drives. While her work will focus primarily on the swing states that will decide the presidential election, Glover stressed that all states were important to support Democratic House candidates.
“No administration, no one, has done more for HBCUs than the Biden-Harris administration,” Glover said.
More: Balancing achievements and controversies: President Glenda Glover’s TSU tenure
Todd A. Price is a regional reporter in the South for the USA TODAY Network. He can be reached at taprice@gannett.com.
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