Youth leadership program that gives out food during COVID looks for more volunteers

Selma native and decorated former state trooper Glenda Deese watched the news one night and saw a story where teens were involved in a shooting and she said to herself, someone needs to give these kids direction to lead a better life.

Then she heard herself say, “Why don’t you do something about it?”

And she did. Deese talked about how she started the Glenda Davis Deese Foundation at Monday’s Rotary Club of Selma meeting. The nonprofit was approved in only a month. Through the foundation, she started tutoring teens after school and hosting youth leadership seminars that she calls Youth Leadership Black Belt.

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