The Global Ethical Leadership Society is committed to culturing a safe space for ethical inquiry. We strive to foster a free-flowing, safe environment to allow our members to leave each weekly meeting more aware of our society’s ethical standards. To stimulate respectful conversations beyond our campus, members draft proposals and budgets to establish biannual professional panels to engage with and challenge community perspectives. With today’s changing social and political climate eroding ethics, we hope to internalize the importance of not letting society compromise ethical dialogue and values.
Please browse through some of our galleries to see what our members have been up to throughout the years.
GELS members host a professional panel on the ethics of "Fake News in the Post-Truth Era" in 2019, where members of the community were able to engage with the speakers.
GELS members Halle Rose and Jack Zhao moderate a professional panel on the ethics of "Fake News in the Post-Truth Era" where members of the community were inviteed to engage with the panelists.
GELS members Halle Rose and Jack Zhao moderate a professional panel on the ethics of "Fake News in the Post-Truth Era" with speakers Vickie Walton-James, Senior Editor at NPR; Jim Sheeler, Pulitzer Prize Winner' Dr. Kathryn Lavelle, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs at CWRU; and Dr. Girma Paris, visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science.
Each year, GELS members are invited to attend the U.S. Naval Academy Leadership Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. In 2019, GELS members Jonathan Lee, Olivia Thomas, and Grace Zhang represented GELS and the university to study and exchange leadership skills, experiences, and ideas with service academies and students from civilian universities.
GELS Members Sami Xu, Halle Rose, and Benjamin George traveled to Annapolis to represent GELS and CWRU at the 2019 US Naval Academy Leadership conference.
GELS members pose for a photo with 2019 Inamori Ethics Prize Winner, Levar Burton, literacy advocate and Reading Rainbow host.
GELS members after meeting Dr. Denis Mukwege, Recipient of Inamori Ethics Prize 2014
GELS members meet 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize Winner, Martha Nussbaum
In September 2018, GELS members had the opportunity to meet with the 2018 Inamori Ethics Prize winner, Dr. Farouk El-Baz.
GELS members with Inamori Ethics Prize winner Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (2013)
After a fun night of bonding and ethical competition, GELS members Halle, Lucille, and Koko pose with water bottle prizes after winning Ethics Bowl Night.
Members Halle and Andrea share an inside joke during a GELS meeting.
2019 GELS Seniors, Crystal, Brian, and Koko smile during senior send off.
GELS members and Ethics Bowl team Crystal, Sami, Brian, and Yash qualify for the 2018 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl nationals.
Dr. French, Director of the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence, gives GELS members a crash course on ethics (2013).
GELS members engage with students as they host an "I Care About..." Initiative at CWRU's 2014 Springfest.
GELS members host an “I Care About…” initiative at CWRU's Springfest, 2014
GELS members in 2014 host an "I Care About..." Initiative at CWRU's 2014 Springfest.