In just 6 years as director of the Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative, Mr. Schneider and his team of outreach workers and volunteers built the largest coalition (1,100 organizations) ever amassed in state history to fight for quality and affordable health insurance coverage for all Marylanders. The Health Care for All! Coalition won major victories for health care consumers and public health during Schneider’s tenure. It advanced one of the nation’s largest Medicaid expansions, the nation’s first Fair Share Health Care law requiring large companies to contribute a minimum amount towards employee health care costs, and the nation’s best prescription drug discount program for the uninsured. It also kept CareFirst BC/BS a non-profit insurer and raised Maryland’s tobacco tax by $1 per pack to become the fourth highest tax in the United States.

Schneider has been a guest speaker at many universities and institutions across the country on the topics of community organizing, implementing health policy, and strategic planning and is currently a health systems adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore. He has a Masters Degree in Public Health from the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh and received his school’s highest honor, the Distinguished Graduate Award, in 2002. Glenn also received the 2003 Jack Lodge Award for Effective Advocacy from the American Lung Association, the 2004 Community Advocate of the Year Award from the American Cancer Society, a 2004 Social Justice Leadership Fellowship from the Advocacy Institute and the 2008 James W. Rouse Community Builder Award from the Howard County Democratic Party.