Jane Walker Snider
Executive Director

Jane Walker Snider manages ACWA as a mission-based non-profit organization. She innovates and manages programs developed in response to evaluations of constituencies' needs. These include Global Scholars, Global Executives, the Community Dialogue Speakers Series, and the Intern Program. She manages operations and strategy for ACWA, including fundraising, community partnerships, strategic planning and resource allocations. She also manages the college WorldQuest annual competition and the Great Decisions program. She is editor of the Web site and contributes articles and photographs.

Ms. Snider has extensive experience in cross-cultural relationships in the U.S. and in Asia through trips to Japan, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan. In 1999, she served as a delegate to the Japan-America Conference in Fukuoka, representing the Japan-America Society of Northeast Ohio, and was an invited guest speaker at Kyoto University. In 2001, she accompanied a study group to Taiwan under the auspices of the World Affairs Councils of America. In March 2004, she was a guest of the Taiwan government as an independent observer of the Presidential elections. She has also traveled independently in a number of European Union
countries.

Ms. Snider’s business background includes being employed as brand manager at The Procter & Gamble Company, a Fortune 40 company. She served in the Household Products Division of P&G, working with numerous functions within the company as well as with advertising agencies and other outside suppliers.

Ms. Snider holds marketing and journalism degrees from Marshall University and a Bachelor of Fines Arts degree in photography and printmaking from The University of Akron. During the active phase of her art career, her work was widely exhibited in national juried exhibitions. Her several trips to Asia have allowed her to build a photography portfolio of her people-to-people contacts in Japan, the PRC, and Taiwan, together with her cross-cultural contacts in the U.S.

Since moving to Akron, Ohio, in 1979, she has contributed her marketing and fundraising skills to several organizations. In 1991, she organized a citizens committee to nominate Dr. Gertrude Elion of Burroughs Wellcome to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The committee's campaign resulted in Dr. Elion being the first woman inducted into this prestigious body.