Jessica Gall

Jessica Gall began her professional career in 2002 teaching English literature and coaching competitive speech. For six years, she worked in two different public high schools in Fremont and Omaha, Nebraska. During that time, Gall became interested in Holocaust education and traveled to Poland and Israel with the Jewish Labor Committee’s Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Program, took part in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Belfer I and Belfer Next Step programs, and began learning and facilitating ADL’s Echoes and Reflections training. In addition to teaching, Gall also served as Coordinator of the Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest for the Plains States ADL and Institute for Holocaust Education. Eventually, she joined the Plains States ADL staff as Education Director, overseeing ADL’s A World of Difference Institute providing anti-bias training and resources to educators, parents, students, and the greater community. In late 2013, Gall moved to Chicago to join the ADL Midwest staff and she is now ADL Midwest’s Senior Associate Regional Director and Regional Office Law Enforcement Contact overseeing hate crimes, implicit bias, and violent extremism law enforcement programming and the Glass Leadership Institute. Gall has over 18 years of experience in Holocaust, diversity, equity and inclusion training and consulting.