Women2Women - Excelling in your Executive Role: Negotiating & Influencing - Jan. 2024

Adelle Schade is the Founder of Total Experience Learning® and Dean of Pre-College + Summer Programs at Albright College. Total Experience Learning® was named a top four STEM program in the United States in 2019 by District Administrator Journal. In December 2022, the program received international recognition during a ceremony by the United Nations, New York, as the Most Innovative Educational Model by the Materials Science sub-division of the United Nations. Schade was appointed Adjunct Instructor of Pediatrics in the Penn State College of Medicine and also is a part of the Visions Federal Credit Union CEO Advisory Board. In 2022, she was named the recipient of the Whitaker Center’s Women in STEM Game Changer Award, and in 2023, was named a Girl Scout Take the Lead award recipient.

Crystal Gilmore Harris is the Social Services Administrative Assistant at the Reading School District, working closely with the Director of Social Services Wynton Butler. She is also Head Coach of the Reading High School Cheerleaders who double up as Girl Scouts troop #1353. This keeps her busy as a mentor for approximately 70 girls in grades 9-12 and has been since 2008. In 2016 she founded the “Finding Me Mentoring Program” which invites various women community leaders to a round table discussion about careers for the cheerleading squad and other sporting teams at Reading High School. Crystal is a member of various civic and service organizations dedicated to the betterment of Reading. The organizations include, but are not limited TLC Fore Reading, Kids That Ball, Inc., Blacktop Basketball, Inc., Reading Youth Athletics League, Voice UP and Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. Crystal has received the Girl Scout Take the Lead 2013, and Athena Leadership Award 2020.