Sallie A. Glickman is a civic entrepreneur who has dedicated her career to fostering strategic partnerships and community mobilization efforts to create sustaining structures that address significant social issues, most particularly as they relate to economic and social mobility for historically disenfranchised populations. She co-founded Graduate! Philadelphia, which designed a methodology for successfully and cost-efficiently supporting adult “comebackers” back to college and through to a degree, and most recently led The Graduate! Network, which was the national organization founded to support the replication of that model.

Building on two decades of this work, Sallie joined Burning Glass Institute in 2024 to design and lead the College Comebacker Initiative. This effort will create a national backbone and research hive to support education attainment and economic mobility for working adults, as well as serve as a launchpad for data-driven experiments aspiring to help move 5M adults with some college to a bachelor’s degree and into college-level careers over the next decade.